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Listening to and believing the cultural and educational biases of your family, friends, acquaintances, teachers, professors, media and others may lead you in strange directions. Lending your ear to such can be a real mistake. Words can change your beliefs! Many of the experiences and advices I had and was given during my life influenced me in directions that were not the best to go. Until One Voice came loud into my ears…

Introduction and Acknowledgments

Index / Trips

Childhood

The Procession
The Broken Saint
Lone Childhood
My First Beer
Mariposa, the Cow
Green Peppers at the Beach
Second World War
Avid Reader/listener
The Beginning of Numbness?
My Religious Impiousness
French School
But the Golden Dawn is Mine
My Catholic Religion Classes
My First Cat
After Death
Lourdes
Christians Wows, Deeds, or Doings
Pregnant Spring Festival Queen
The Returns

Mail Day
My First Car
Dreams
Future Journalist
Communication
Real Journalism
Mushroom Communities
Learning about Mapuches
Portable Country Life
Radio Journalism
DNA and God
The 1960 Earthquake
The Boat up the Hill
Personalities
Madame De Gaulle
First Woman Doctor in South America
The Blessing Reversed?
Miracle

Family

The Paternal Grandparents’ House
My Paternal Grandfather
The Farm House
The Bodega Test
The Watermelon
The Best Wine
My Maternal Grandfather
My Grandmothers
My Father
A Degree for a Pot of Beans
My Mother
Vacations
Chilean Christmas Memories
New House
The Guilt
The Little Priest

Supernatural

What is Supernatural?
The Story of Balmaceda
The Blue Dog
La Quintrala and the Christ of May
Of Angels and Humans

First time in USA

To the USA
Georgia and English
Mark Your Ethnicity
Demerits
Outsmarting the Wine
Summer break at Jekyll Island
To the North East
Dinner and Anatomy
Back to School
Differences
Martin Luther King Jr.
Filomena’s Boxes
Filomena’s Concerns
The Letter

Back to Chile

Signing in the Communist Party
The Visit
Return to Antofagasta
The Flowering Desert
The Dollars and the Pesos
Socialism and Communism
Pro-socialism in Chile: my Experience
US Opposition to a Pro-socialist Government in Chile 1970-1973
My Cousin, the President’s Aid-de-Camp
The Military Coup
The Electric Chair
Dumped in the Ocean
Escape to Santiago and Back to USA
Antonio’s Fear
A Gate to Heaven
Trusting God Alone

Back to the USA

The Skies of Texas
The Map
Computers
To Marry or Not
When the Potatoes Burn
Finding Purpose
Becoming Spiritual, Becoming Real

My USA Citizenship Testimony
Miami and Hurricane Andrew
The Butterfly
Birds Praising
My Father, “Rabbi” Beltran
Drugs & Bikini Ministries
First assignment for “Bible Translation”
Moving to Computers
My Best Friend Forever
Miraculous Warning
Prison Ministry


Training on How to Use Computers

Curaçao
Heavy Portable Computers
Computer Eating Diskettes
The Monk’s Lesson
The laptop up the Tree
Women in the Bible
The MS-DOS Menu
Red Light
Transparent Computer
The Absent Manual
Coffee Beans and Absent Printer


The Drunken Airport Baggage Handler
Irish Feud
Adapting to the Culture
La Llorona
San Juan Chamula
Prophecy Coming True
Six-Day War

Distant but Close

Distance Learning
Trump: You are Hired!
Old Dogs, New Tricks
The Mind Content
Revelation
I’m Not Less
Beds
My Death
God Changing His Mind?

The Other Ear

Protection
The Broken Saints
How I Met Love
New Creation
Love at the Kibbutzim
God is Not a Movie Star
The Treasures Tub
The Walk
By Faith

Thanks to my friend Karelin Seitz for her help editing my English

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