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Clark as a poor little rich girl with a bad case of arrested development. Clark is an intriguing figure with a story that will interest many, but the book misses the mark as an indepth expose. She tells how cayce saw past the barriers of space and time, how he penetrated the previous lives of his subjects, and performed the fantastic cures and prophesies that made him the most remarkable clairvoyant in modern. A more reckless and sensationalized book than empty mansions would try to pigeonhole ms. Chorus theres a mansion now empty just waiting for me at the end of lifes troublesome way many friends and dear loved ones will welcome me there near the door of that.
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