Kristina Wandzilak & Constance Curry
This is another great story. It was 2007, just days before my birthday. I had company visiting from out of town and a full calendar. A friend called and asked me if I was planning to attend a book signing at our church with the co-authors of The Lost Years, a nonfiction account of a mother’s attempts to help her daughter escape the clutches of addiction, which was generating a lot of buzz at the time. I explained to my friend there was no way, I simply didn’t have time. She persisted and said I would regret not attending. So I grabbed my mom and headed to the church. The mother-daughter duo did not give a speech as I expected, but instead read excerpts from their book. I was completely captivated. The line to get signed books was too long for me to wait in, so I managed to pass the authors one of my business cards, upon which I’d written “Call me about speaking.” Since then we have booked Kristina and her mother Constance 46 times. Their story is incredibly powerful and so full of hope. I have watched Kristina be a guest on Good Morning America, launch several TV series, and now run her own addiction recovery clinic in California. They both continue to inspire me.
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