The Last Exhale (36 page)
Authors: Julia Blues
Music: Anthony Hamilton, Jill Scott, Ledisi, Joe, Chrisette Michele, Avery Sunshine, Boyz II Men, Eric Roberson, Mariah Carey, Jagged Edge, India. Arie, and John Legend, thank you for your gift of music. This book would not be what it is had it not been for your songs. They helped me get through the hard parts.
If you have not seen your name, do not think I've excluded or forgotten you. Here's a big THANK YOU. Nothing you have done has gone unnoticed. Thank you for picking up
Parallel Pasts,
and this book,
The Last Exhale.
Thank you for reading these stories, for telling others about them, for posting about them on your
blogs and social media pages. Thank you for rooting me along, and for joining me on this journey.
It is my hope that the story of Sydney and Brandon will help relationships all across the board. Let us learn to live, learn, grow, and love. We have to be willing to open the lines of communication in honesty and not in fear of the results. Marriage should be a lifetime commitment, not until you don't feel like being married anymore. Let's all work together to make the right choices in the partners we choose for life, because after all, it is our decision.
I'd love to hear from you whether it's about this book, something else I've written, or if you just need someone to talk to. Email me at
[email protected]
. You can also find me and all of my social media links on my website,
www.JuliaBlues.com
.
Thank you again for taking out the time to read this book and for your contribution in bettering lives univerSOULly every story.
Until the next bookâ¦
Abundant blessings and peace be unto you!
Julia Blues
“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.”
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Credit: Courtesy of Nikki Seegars
Julia Blues
is a storyteller on a mission. That mission is to help better lives univerSOULly every story. Living several years of her life on different sides of the globe, she's able to take her cultural experiences and plant them into the souls of the characters in her stories.
Parallel Pasts
was her first novel of many more to come. She is expanding her storytelling to television and film. After years of the gypsy life, she has finally found home in Austin, TX. To read more of her story, visit
www.JuliaBlues.com
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ALSO BY JULIA BLUES
Parallel Pasts
Strebor Books
P.O. Box 6505
Largo, MD 20792
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
© 2014 by Julia Blues
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means whatsoever. For information address Strebor Books, P.O. Box 6505, Largo, MD 20792.
ISBN 978-1-59309-497-3
ISBN 978-1-4767-1151-5 (ebook)
LCCN 2014931187
First Strebor Books trade paperback edition June 2014
Cover design:
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Cover photograph: © Keith Saunders Photos
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