“The mask I wore before my near-death experience still bewilders me. Looking back to February 8, 2019, at sixty-six, I see that I had wandered through life unaware of my true self. I had written novels, tended the sick, raised children, and played the part of marriage—but it was all motion without meaning, a shadow of living. Then, at the edge of death, the world whispered its secrets, and I began to remember who I was meant to be.”
The number of 9- death and rebirth

