<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="d9jm2-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="d9jm2-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="d9jm2-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">THE MAN I WANT TO BE</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="cjbep-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="cjbep-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="cjbep-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="6f82u-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="6f82u-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="6f82u-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Many years ago, in 1980, I visited the Edgar Cayce Institute in Virginia Beach, Virginia, with my first wife, Patricia -- a feminist, a Marxist, and an historian who was asked to leave her position as a teaching fellow at the Johns Hopkins University for being too radical. She wasn't. She was brilliant, and the Art History Department at Hopkins at that time was sexist. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="3rnhr-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="3rnhr-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="3rnhr-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="980rp-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="980rp-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="980rp-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">The department was chaired by a misogynist and closet white supremacist, Egon Verheyen, who had actually been a member of the Hitler Youth, or Hitlerjugend, as a teenager. Not surprisingly, Dr. Verheyen's chief scholarly interest was the art and architecture of the German medieval period. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="dbvsg-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="dbvsg-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="dbvsg-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="bqk7d-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="bqk7d-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="bqk7d-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Patricia and I were living in Maryland, and our first daughter of four daughters had just been born. We had traveled all the way to the Edgar Cayce Institute from Koinonia, a Quaker community in the northern suburbs of Baltimore in the Greenspring Valley Historic District. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="aoi4-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="aoi4-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="aoi4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="c0a12-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="c0a12-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="c0a12-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">It was lovely at Koinonia. Beautifully-landscaped. A historic Tudor-style mansion and carriage house. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="c9um7-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="c9um7-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="c9um7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="ek0p4-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="ek0p4-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="ek0p4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">We were so lucky to live there.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="drr08-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="drr08-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="drr08-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="eq4to-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="eq4to-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="eq4to-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Built in 1902 by Alexander J. Cassatt, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad and brother of the American Impressionist painter, Mary Cassatt. the estate was presented as a wedding gift to Cassatt's daughter, Eliza. Later owners included the prominent Brewster family, one of whom became a Senator from Maryland. In the 1950s the estate became home to the Quakers and the Koinonia Foundation, a predecessor of the Peace Corps</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="as9gq-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="as9gq-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="as9gq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="srnb-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="srnb-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="srnb-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Patricia and I made that 263-mile trip from Koinonia to the Edgar Cayyce Institute in an old but glorious 1962 Chevy Impala SS -- a convertible. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="1mj9b-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="1mj9b-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="1mj9b-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="fn0vm-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="fn0vm-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="fn0vm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Roman red, my Impala stood out in the crowd. Lots of horsepower in that V8 engine. Lots of noise coming from the pipes of the dual exhaust.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="b4900-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="b4900-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="b4900-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="eaaq6-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="eaaq6-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="eaaq6-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">It was my first car, and our first road trip as a family.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="6lp8n-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="6lp8n-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="6lp8n-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="e0lt-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="e0lt-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="e0lt-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">The trip took about five hours.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="che2r-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="che2r-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="che2r-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="20egh-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="20egh-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="20egh-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Patricia was a believer in the whole clairvoyance thing. Me? I was a skeptic. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="5637c-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="5637c-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="5637c-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="atu5d-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="atu5d-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="atu5d-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Patricia, herself, had considerable psychic abilities, and not all of them were positive. She was "witchy", for lack of a better word. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="bn7rs-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="bn7rs-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="bn7rs-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="74pjl-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="74pjl-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="74pjl-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Once at the Edgar Cayce Institute, Patricia had her reading first. It was a private reading -- just Patricia and the psychic.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="5atpj-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="5atpj-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="5atpj-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="1irge-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="1irge-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="1irge-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Then, it was my turn for a reading. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="5eh1a-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="5eh1a-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="5eh1a-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="9a4uh-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="9a4uh-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="9a4uh-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">I was a little anxious. I didn't know why.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="divam-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="divam-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="divam-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="bhh3r-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="bhh3r-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="bhh3r-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">I was described by the psychic -- a rather portly, older, kind, grandmotherly woman -- as "the last centurion guarding the last bridge to Rome." She said I was the last centurion guarding the last bridge to Rome.over the Tiber as the Visigoths advanced on the city. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="atabl-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="atabl-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="atabl-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="9a91-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="9a91-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="9a91-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">The psychic went on to say that as this "last centurion" I had been trapped between the precarious and chaotic reign of Rome's last emperor and Alaric, and, of course, his barbarians at the Salarian Gate. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="aputn-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="aputn-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="aputn-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="440vu-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="440vu-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="440vu-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">The date was 24 August 410. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="bsmcn-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="bsmcn-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="bsmcn-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="6rbh3-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="6rbh3-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="6rbh3-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">The Visigoths had nothing but the Sack of Rome on their minds -- rape, murder, pillage, and either ransoming the few survivors or selling them into slavery. And I was the last trusted centurion of Stilicho, the last honorable Roman general. Stilicho commanded Rome's last legion while treachery consumed Rome from within.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="9ra1c-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="9ra1c-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="9ra1c-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="2j0aa-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="2j0aa-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="2j0aa-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Honor was all. For both of us. Stilicho and his loyal centurion, me.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="evhqv-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="evhqv-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="evhqv-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="8aool-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="8aool-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="8aool-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Me.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="dr5v1-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="dr5v1-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="dr5v1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="bb6t1-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="bb6t1-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="bb6t1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">I was the last centurion guarding the last bridge to Rome. In her trance, the psychic further called me a "warrior monk" and a "warrior poet".</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="a6ent-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="a6ent-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="a6ent-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="b8s7t-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="b8s7t-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="b8s7t-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">She said she saw me, and the group of centuries of 80 men under my command, all being slaughtered by the Visigoths -- our bodies mutilated, in fact -- but later, many lifetimes later, the psychic said she saw all of us going on to be reincarnated as the first Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Salomonici, also known as the Order of Solomon's Temple. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="bq269-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="bq269-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="bq269-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="ctkb2-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="ctkb2-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="ctkb2-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">In France, we were known as the Ordre du Temple or Templiers, </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="9i5ck-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="9i5ck-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="9i5ck-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="184p8-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="184p8-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="184p8-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Our Arabic name is فرسان الهيكل .</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="9uua9-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="9uua9-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="9uua9-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="8ipth-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="8ipth-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="8ipth-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">We were known by most simply as the Knights Templar.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="1fmmm-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="1fmmm-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="1fmmm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="ajcm6-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="ajcm6-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="ajcm6-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">That future incarnation to serve again was the reward for our sacrifice for Rome.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="2smln-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="2smln-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="2smln-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="cplnh-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="cplnh-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="cplnh-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Our reward for honor.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="fo0dm-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="fo0dm-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="fo0dm-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="6accr-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="6accr-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="6accr-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">From the moment of our deaths, we were destined to become the very first Knights Templar.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="7vgng-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="7vgng-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="7vgng-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="c74-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="c74-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="c74-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Was it true?</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="fpq5r-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="fpq5r-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="fpq5r-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="bjv29-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="bjv29-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="bjv29-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Maybe yes. Maybe no. Maybe it was just a bunch of New Age mumbo jumbo.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="cl7np-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="cl7np-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="cl7np-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="8ffhp-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="8ffhp-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="8ffhp-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">I don't know. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="b1b4j-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="b1b4j-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="b1b4j-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="coch1-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="coch1-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="coch1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">How could I possibly know?</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="18t76-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="18t76-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="18t76-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="ap803-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="ap803-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="ap803-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">Nevertheless, I shuddered and shook and felt like crying when the psychic at the Edgar Cayce Institute told me all this -- it rang true. Or I desperately wanted for it to be true. I wanted to be that man.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="cobl0-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="cobl0-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="cobl0-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="aovpk" data-offset-key="63sm2-0-0" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;" data-mce-style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: #ffffff;"><div data-offset-key="63sm2-0-0" class="_1mf _1mj" style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="position: relative; direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span data-offset-key="63sm2-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;" data-mce-style="font-family: inherit;">I still want to be that man.</span></div></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>