The Road to Reality by Dianne Burnett

Author:Dianne Burnett
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hay House, Inc.
Published: 2012-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

SWEET BABY JAMES

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.

Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

—Helen Keller

I KNEW SOMETHING WAS up when I almost projectile vomited on the Mona Lisa. The Da Vinci painting was the very reason Mark and I had waded through the throngs of tourists at the Louvre that day in early January 1993. Just as we approached the faintly-smiling lady, my stomach announced that it was going to erupt. Fearing I was about to add a personal touch to the masterpiece, I hastily bid adieu to the portrait I hadn’t had time to see, and ran to les toilettes.

I’d been feeling dodgy off and on since we’d left Oman three weeks before; over the Christmas holidays in England with Mark’s family, I’d spent half my time in bed. By the time we landed in “The City of Light” to celebrate the new year, I thought I was fine, until that day at the Louvre, when my mystery ailment struck again. I was still feeling dicey back in our hotel room, so Mark rushed to a pharmacy.

The good news was conveyed via two lines on a thin paper strip: I was with child. We snapped a picture of the pregnancy test to commemorate the moment. On the heels of our intense and wonderful journey to Oman, to be there in Paris with the man I adored, knowing that we would soon be three was one of the pinnacles of my life, and I’d never seen Mark so elated. “Are you a baby girl or a baby boy?” he asked my stomach.

On the flight back to Los Angeles, Mark kept talking about putting together a new team to compete in next year’s Raid in Madagascar. I kept thinking of our family-on-the-way, and fell asleep musing about self-help guru Tony Robbins: his Law of Attraction theory apparently worked.

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