Author: Jane Wodening
Narrator: Jane Wodening
Unabridged: 8 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook
Publisher: Findaway Voices
Published: 11/26/2013
"What I find so rare and immediate in this journal is the self-grown quality of the knowledge gained from the presented experience. How many of us live with this degree of attention to the events of our experience..." - Reed Bye, Forward
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