Her grief over Nancy’s death, and the psychic and out-of-body events she experienced following that loss, led to an eight-year spiritual quest where she explored her Jewish roots, the Kabbalah, Buddhism, and reincarnation. only to lose her abruptly just one year later. Roberta soon found love again, with a woman named Nancy. As she cleared land, hammered nails, lifted beams, and shivered in her rented mobile home, the answers began to come to her. Immersed in a world of blueprints, materials, contractors, and critters, Roberta confronted the major losses she’d suffered in her life-in particular the deaths of her mother and aunt from cancer and her separation from her father and brother during her placement in an orphanage-and to try to understand how those losses had shaped the woman, lawyer, and activist she’d become. On a blustery Maine day, thirty-nine-year-old Roberta Kuriloff found herself standing on a plot of land purchased with her former partner, Mary Ann, h On a blustery Maine day, thirty-nine-year-old Roberta Kuriloff found herself standing on a plot of land purchased with her former partner, Mary Ann, holding a couple of wood stakes to mark off exactly where her new house would sit. We're giving away 5 copies of Roberta Kuriloff's poignant memoir! We're giving away 5 copies of Roberta Kuriloff's poignant memoir!.
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