Authors Favourite Quotes From The Honey Trap

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ISBN: 978-1-4092-7467-4

Favourite Quotes by the Author:
“Well I had the perfect job, perfect house and perfect family and I didn’t know it. I kept striving for more. All tasks had to be done 15 times to avoid mistakes I became a little obsessive. I threw myself into my career as a librarian as the kids were getting ready to go to university. I only got paid for a 35 hour week but I worked a 50 hour week. I even brought work home to double check it but I was the first female head of IT in an academic librarian, a mostly male domain. I had more to prove being female that I could be career orientated and I would not ring in sick if I was needed to look after the kids. I disciplined my subordinates severely and slated their work to show I could be as big a bitch as any man. Nobody made it easy for me as a woman to get to the top and I wasn’t going to help another female to advance her career either. I did not care whose toes I stood on to get to the top”.

“Anger then took over hysteria and they went on a campaign of tearing all wedding photographs, his legal documents, his sports awards, his scrap book of media clippings, his bank cards, driving license, anything belonging to him. Felicity then rang their bank manager, now brave with a few brandies inside her and closed all their bank accounts and cancelled all their cards. Anger made her feel empowered and feel less of a victim at least she could control this feeling and it was a form of release. The following day she visited the credit union and post office and closed their savings accounts and set up a new branch account in a different bank in her maiden name. Next she rang the estate agents and put the manor up for sale. The revenge continued for the week and she put an advertisement on the local paper and sold James’ sports car, his coupe for half its retail value just to annoy him. She then rang the newspaper and put a false death notice, footballer killed by his own hand in the paper”.

“Felicity continued to drink heavily too and Erin affectionately named her Shaky Murphy as her hands shock constantly with the DTS. In Spain Lola made a financial settlement of Euro 1 million for stealing Felicity’s husband.”

“The flat had the look and damp smell of poverty. There were no luxuries here: no cushions, throw, rug, picture nor pair of curtain, only the very basics. Gillian had bought the table and chairs and beds, the whole of the family furniture second-hand weekly down in the open air second hand stalls on Dublin quay. The women who ran these stalls were called the Shawlie Maggies and they saw her bruises and heard the stories of her husband the local drunk and gambler, the husband from hell and gave her cheaply some second hand clothes and some fruit and vegetables for the kids and herself. It was for Gillian and the kids a tough life with many disappointments. Despite this Gillian had a solid head on her shoulders and a great sense of humour and this got her through the worst of times”.

“A full night’s sleep without money worries was a luxury. They were afraid to answer the door to strangers as they often could not pay the rent and had no TV license. They lived in fear of been brought to court for bad debts. They became master liars and a sarcastic tongue and cheeky nature were vital survival skills people learned in Wasteside. They pretended to officials at front doors they were child minders and they refused to accept or sign anything official or registered in case it was a summons.”

“One by one the desperate duo clicked the hypertext to read the websites. They were impressed by a Dublin man, an ex-Dublin guard Inspector Mick who promised a discrete investigation and confidentiality guaranteed and high success rate”.

“Again pushy Katherine took control of the situation and said: “We have just found out her husband has a gay lover. Sorry but there is no nice way to put it but she needs an M.O.T., to get the all clear and to make sure she hasn’t got aids and such like”. Her sister was quite proud of her summary of the situation and had wondered why the pair of them felt so ill at ease going to see posh college graduates in a posh clinic. It must be that Wasteside chip of poverty on their shoulders. Sure weren’t the posh crowd the worst adulators of all, she rationalized. She applauded herself silently for marrying a man from the Northside they were poorer but they made better husbands. It was a known fact she heard it in the pub. It took a few pints but all women were honest drunk and it was a national hobby, Northsiders (Council Estate Residents) and Southsiders (Private Estate Residents) alike, husband bashing. Had the situation not been so traumatic for Ava it would have been funny seeing the doctor gown up and put on a white gown, mask, hat and click on his white rubber gloves, he was like a space doctor, thought Katherine. He was even wearing co-coordinating white wellies”.

“At first, they joked about it but as they became more detoxed and more assertive from therapy, paid ironically by the husbands, they began to realize that they each had unique strengths and powers and a burning desire for revenge. Between the Three Wise Women they had an IT expert, an actress and a supermodel, all very wealthy and beautiful. All the three men’s’ brains appeared to reside in their pants and they wondered if they set a honey trap could it possibly work. A plan was proposed by Felicity and she called it Operation Devastation. Angelina would hack into their MIS computer systems, bug their telephones, offices, cars and homes. Ava would seduce Ryan, who owned Novels and the computer firm, Angelina’s husband in a honey trap and get it all on DVD for the divorce court. Then Ava would seduce Felicity’s husband, James, the Irish footballer. Finally, Sean who was Felicity’s friend who was an out of work actor would seduce Patrick”.

“Like Felicity they methodically checked the house office, safe and family bank account details and financial affairs. Angelina then had Inspector Mick bug the boys’ homes, cars and offices and with the information she acquired came knowledge and contacts. She wrote a programme called listen, it saved all conversations digitally and converted it to text into a computer file in a remote location not traceable to her or anybody at 3WW but it recorded all his illicit dealings and it gave her valuable information. She hacked into their individual MIS computer systems and sent spyware via e-mail called virus protection free download and once opened it went through their c drive, all files on their computers, and copied all files to a ip address of a remote computer of Angelina’s request, in a phantom company named Borrow. All data was heavily encrypted and deleted after access and storage was onto an external hard drive storage box, deleting the electronic footpath. The spyware recorded their strokes on the keyboard and Angelina was able to secure even their banking pins and passwords and all their computer passwords. She had a brilliant computer mind, wasted in librarianship”.

“Ava was blessed with amazing beauty but was academically challenged. Angelina tried to give her a quick introduction to computers but was horrified at Ava’s lack of knowledge and complete failure to understand. Ava called the CD drawer the cup holder and honestly thought it was her holding her coffee or drink when typing. She thought the monitor was the telly and the mouse was the roller. She kept exiting programmes instead of closing documents and kept deleting items and forgetting to save things. Things happened Angelina’s computers that never happened before: programs failed to respond and the computer kept crashing. She typed e-mails and then printed them and put them in an envelope to post them, Angelina was speechless. She even killed a machine by constant abuse for the week. It just died the screen went blank and a message came up of fundamental hard drive failure, the monitor went black and the keyboard and mouse went dead and could not be restored. It went to the computer scrap yard, RIP. Angelina ran her out of the IT dept in their firm terrified she’d cause any more mayhem. She was the absolute blonde bombshell when it came to computers”.

“Duties were allocated and their meeting was adjourned until after the second honey trap by Ava. Angelina and Felicity would stay at base HQ and download data and run the company and thoroughly go through all accounts retrieved from the husband’s computers. It would be put into separate files for each husband, heavily encrypted and stored on a remote hard drive and a back up made daily on the company server. All figures would be inputted into excel spreadsheets and final figures would determine of each mans financial worth”.

“As planned The Three Wise Women meet at 3WW HQ for debriefing. Angelina extracted the small camera from her lapel and downloaded it onto a laptop. She then expertly digitally scanned the Polaroid into her electronic file on James. Ava had just missed Sean who had given his camcorder and photographs of himself and Patrick to Angelina. It had been digitally downloaded and formatted onto Patrick’s pc file. A back-up of all data was done on the Company server but it was heavily encrypted and written in Angelina’s own program Borrow and used her own software Gotya, so only the very best could break her code and that would take months”.

“It did not discriminate by ones sexuality. The Paradisers judged each person as an individual on their own merits. Interestingly, The Three Wise Women allowed Patrick and Ryan to run their own companies and allowed James a key senior management role. The husbands had the experience, education and skills”

“Geographically the island had dramatic coastline of secret coves and forests. It was surrounded by water of turquoise colour and reef. It had rich, fertile lands and a very hot temperature all year round. All year the temperature averaged 105 degrees. It got a bit cooler at night but people could still sleep under the stars and sky. It had very little rainfall and no snow or frost. Temperatures dropped a little in the winter”.

“It had pale golden sands and clear cloudless blue skies. Rich quantities of palm trees and exotic flowers in dramatic red and fuchsia pink and bright yellow colours enhanced the islands beauty. The gardens were decorated with white Balinese furniture and the Japanese rock gardens with mythical dragons, lions, dinosaurs, elephants, nymphs, and man beasts (half men and half beast) in concrete large statutes and red bridges over goldfish ponds. A large loch housed swans and pink flamingos.”

“She looked around and recognized some faces. Stella had the floor: “I suffer from alcoholism and sex addiction but I can do one without the other. Sober or drunk I felt lonely and mostly drunk I use hit the town from a man. I fell in love on a daily basis but the trouble was I could never remember his name when I woke up. I woke some mornings and jumped to find a stranger in my bed. The trouble was the more drunk I got the more attractive the man looked and the more affectionate I became. By the end of the night I was so pissed I could have been having sex with anyone. I use think one day I would meet the one of my dreams. I felt I could bonk Mr. Perfect until he loved me. I spent all my money on the demon drink and ended up in debtor’s court the judge sent me here. I wept on the dock and begged not to send me to jail to be someone’s bitch, my kids needed me.”

“She texted Ava and Felicity and asked them to make informal advances to the town council and ask if she could establish AA meetings in Paradise. She sent the messages and hid the phone down her knickers again to avoid detection on room spot checks for contraband by Nurse Fiona. She laid back and slept soundly for the night. During the night a number of males had slipped their names and room numbers under her door for adult company if she was lonely at any stage, kind souls. It took two days but when Angelina was in the gym her phone in her knickers began to vibrate and she ran into the toilet to read her text messages the men that mattered from Paradise said yes to AA”.

“My problem is I love sex. No joking I really love sex. Life without sex is unbearable for me. As a child my mum says I loved men and hated women. I use smile at men when I was in the pram and offer them lollipops or sweeties. I guess it is in my genes, my little weakness. I can live without the Valium and Vodka but not my sex. To me my choice is simple men or Paradise and I love them both. I cannot make that choice. It is like there is some evil force driving me to flirt and sleep around. No one man has ever been enough for me and now I have to live like a nun in rehab. I am not bold I am just misunderstood. No, don’t laugh it is an illness and an exhausting one I am so tired, so very tired”.

“They were empowered and fulfilled. They dated occasionally but were just as happy living the feminist dream of a professional woman not answerable to any man. Do what they wanted to, go where they wanted to and spend indecent amount of money on clothes and shoes, it was all good. There were not slaves to diets, shaving hairy legs, waxing eyebrows, dying their roots, endless showers, applying tons of make-up and trying to be domestic goddesses. They could slum around in leisure suits and runners reading Cosmo with a fag in their mouth and a cup of coffee in their hands. There could be slummy mummies or tidy queens or takeaway junkies it all depended on their daily rota and social live. Good, freedom was definitely good. One husband in a lifetime was enough for them”.

“Both Ava and Felicity dumped their men they could be happy with or without men. They had a choice. Their new motto was:” find them, feed them, feck them and leave them”. They were empowered and fulfilled”.

“Felicity recorded in her memoirs that Operation Devastation was a chart buster and won many Oscars and Emmys. It was new in its time sex, fame, dirty money, revenge and paradise…what a journey. It was everybody’s dream to get revenge on an ex-boyfriend or give up work and live in Paradise. Felicity recorded Rory did allow The Three Wise Women input a lot into the scripts and experts were employed to research the themes like addiction, depression, abuse and adultery in a fair and balanced way. The victims of these were given a voice and it gave a forum for people to discuss these topics and be mature and grow up and face problems.”

Authors favourite quotes from Always and Forever by Annette Dunlea

Always and Forever by Annette Dunlea
ISBN: 9781409272977

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Favourite Quotes by The Author:
“One Kerry man seduced and was taking her to the ball. She felt like Cinderella it had taken her 16 and half years to get him to take her out anywhere not a mind to the school ball. How many Saturdays was she dressed up and had no where to go and called next door to Ronan for him to take her for a walk through the muddy dirty fields to feed the animals. He had not noticed her make up or plunging neckline or high heels. She prayed for him as she staggered in her heels over fences and hilly fields but it was all worth it now. Katie was sorted but what about her friends they were so upset they had no dates. What were the girls to do? An emergency cigarette break behind the bicycle shed was called to formulate a plan of action”. (Katie)
“She was emotionally retarded having no sense of humour, cold and no people skills. She was like her mother was obsessed by appearances and wealth and longed to get married to escape from home. Emily was head of her gang, the snobby fashion police”. (Emily)
“On his return to Tralee he called to Katie, with his new teddy boy outfit and scooter. She stood at the cottage door and smiled. She walked outside and examined the bike and sang “Wild Thing”, her sarcasm went over his head. She asked if she could take it for a drive around the fields. The colour drained from his face but after a few minutes of silence he said yes. It was slower than his dad’s tractor but still he was now a man of transport and this was not to be sneezed at. He was coming up in the world a scooter today a Mini Cooper tomorrow. He had gone up in her estimation”. (Katie on Ronan)
“Ronan was normally a shy guy with the nerdy classes and was never a hit with the babes and thought he was been offered it on a plate. He had died and gone to heaven, been in the limelight was all good. This stout was great stuff it totally relaxed him and made him cool and the babes loved it. Who would have guessed it Ronan was a sex machine? He wriggled his hips and enjoyed the moment oblivious to Katie’s glares and killer looks from the edge of the dance floor. Katie stood with a raised complexion with her hands folded across her chest and tapped her heels in irritation. It did her no good, nobody noticed”. (Ronan)
“Emily weighed herself daily and was always on a diet. She spent hours grooming herself before she left the house. She judged people by their wealth and appearance. She was a true Hoare. The bitchy girl was deeply insecure deep down. Men loved her but she was the woman, all women loved to hate. She was Bridget Jones gone wrong. She knew the price of everything and the value of nothing”. (Emily)
“Katie was forced to do the midnight walk of shame in the pitch dark in all her finery with her high heels in her hands bare footed and man less to the taxi base to get a taxi home. She looked like Cinderella having a nervous breakdown with her face and nose red and swollen and with mascara and tears running down her face, looking like a red pumpkin. She vowed she will never be hurt again and if she loves again it will be under her conditions.” (Katie)
“Ronan woke up the following morning with a terrible hangover and a huge sense of regret. He had hurt the woman he loves most in the world and he knew Katie was very strong willed and didn’t forgive easily. Emily had got him drunk to have her evil way with him, it was a wild drunk moment. He set about to win back Katie’s affections. He will do anything for her to date him again”. (Ronan)
“The lads especially Aaron were shouting at him loser. A chorus emerged from the rugby guys singing: “spot, spot, spot, spot the loser. Ronan couldn’t score nothing new there” and they pointed at poor Ronan. He retreated to the safety of the gents to wash his very red face”. (Ronan)
“The journey home was made short by Ronan’s tales of research on love. He confessed to Katie he was not good at expressing his inner feelings. He adopted the Socratic Method and asked all his friends and family for advice. They proved no help so he enlisted the help of Lovely Lucy Looney, the local librarian. He went and researched love, sex and flirting. He spoke of Lucy’s shock on his many visits to the library and his mortification but Katie’s love was worth all embarrassment. She was touched by his Herculean efforts and knew he was her soul mate”. (Ronan)
“Ronan wrote a public apology in the local newspaper, serenaded her at night singing One Way Or Another I’m Going Getcha and I’m Your Man, studied women, seduction and love in the library and went on public radio to win VIP music tickets to Christy Moore’s concert in The Point.” (Ronan)
“Ronan was a national bad boy now, the wild boy who should not be left alone with virgin debutantes. Only, the world did not know it was Ronan who was the frightened virgin and Emily the drunken temptress on the night in question. He was beyond despair and had lost the will to live. He was a dead man walking, His heart and soul was ripped out of his chest. He would never get his decent girl now, his life was over. The media reported that never before had any Irish man being so in love before that he would publicly humiliate himself to win a fair heart”. (Ronan)
“He continued with his research until he found a book entitled The Ultimate Dating Guide: How To Find The Perfect Girlfriend and Keep Them. He flipped through the contents and found the chapter called flirting with confidence. He took out a pen and notebook from his back pocket and scribbled some notes. Praise her body the book advised. Tell her you find her attractive. He decided he would record the key phrases and chose the right moment to recite these to Katie. He wrote you have come to bed eyes. Your eyes were the key to the soul and I like what I see”. (Ronan)
“Bridezellia was like General Patton she had an Operations Room, HQ established in her sitting room. Wall charts, to do lists, pictures, contact lists, mood charts, a calendar, list of dates and jobs were marked off with daily duties in her thick black diary. Her second in command was Saoirse, her local wedding planner. Nothing was going to be left to chance and nobody was going to ruin her prefect day. No expense was to be spared and fools were not suffered gladly. Raised voices were constantly heard in her phone calls to suppliers. Her personality changed and she became a hot head, losing her patience easily. Nobody entered her sitting room, the twilight zone without an invitation”. (Katie)
“During the pictures Katie hand picked the people who were allowed stand in for wedding photographs ugly and fat people were asked to stand out of shot. She even edited her wedding video after her honeymoon and had herself and Ronan air brushed to look perfect”. (Katie)
“When she was 17 she was heading for a professional jockey career when she had a tragic accident at the Grand National Competition ending any hopes of a professional horse riding career. She fell off Star and was trodden on by another horse. She lay lifeless crying on the track. She was rushed by ambulance to hospital and remained seriously ill for a fortnight. She was badly bruised and had internal injuries”. (Emma)
“She locked her pain deep inside her and concentrated on being the happy person everybody wanted her to be. She studied and studied and was only at peace riding Star who loved her disabled or not. His love was non judgmental. She could be herself. She could cry or laugh or just ride for hours on end and feel the air in her hair and breathe in the oxygen deep into her lungs, she was alive on Star. Star became her legs”. (Emma)
“Fate had dedicated that love’s path would not run smoothly. Katie kept a secret from her husband and can they survive this? She had a lump in her breast. She was terrified it was cancer; her mum had died of it. A month later she got so sick she collapsed and had to be hospitalized. Tests revealed she had inoperable cancer. Surgery was no use nor was chemotherapy or radiography”. (Katie)
“She investigated her options and booked herself into a hospice for the end of her life; she will protect her family to the very end. She organized her funeral, wrote her will and wrote an electronic manual on DVD and letter saying goodbye to her kids and husband. She wrote an encyclopedic survival manual for Ronan on running the house and on rearing the kids. For months she took her camcorder with her giving graphic illustrations on how to use household appliances and showed him the locations of dentists, doctors, hospitals, chemists, schools, library, playgrounds etc. The background music on the DVD was the two popular songs I Love You Always and Forever and Honey”. (Katie)
“She left all her assets and money to Ronan and the kids but she willed her husband and kids to her sister Emma. Ronan needed someone to look after him and her babies needed a mum. She also knew her sister was very lonely and longed to be a wife and mum. She was dying but she still had choices and used her freewill to organize the end of her life and life after her death. She died in the hospice brave to the very end.”(Katie)
“At the graveside Emma sang In The Arms of an Angel. Suddenly the roaring wind stopped unexplainably. Ronan was very lonely and Katie as a ghost watched her funeral with mixed emotions”. (Katie’s Burial)
“She blew a warm breeze on his face and rustled his hair and embraced him in a warm haze and he felt her nonthreatening presence. She looked down and saw his face stained with tears, nobody could reach him in his grief but she could. He saw her and blew her a kiss goodbye. She flew down in a haze in a white dress with wings and whispered into his ear “please don’t cry I am in a better place. Marriage was forever. Love and life was forever. My body died but my soul lives on for eternity”. (Katie)
“The rain stopped suddenly and the grey sky cleared into a bright blue colour and a glowing warm orange sun appeared to show her appreciation. A perfect blue sky remained on the dark winter’s day until after the ceremony and the hailstone and rain commenced again and the dark sky reappeared as the funeral car drove away”. (Katie’s Burial)
“Remember me as the girl who married you, the woman who had your babies, who kept your house, weeded your garden, your soul mate and best friend. I was the woman who could make you laugh and cry. I could calm you when you were upset but yet infuriate you also like no other. For the passion and the love we shared, I thank-you. I could read your mind and finish your sentences. I knew everything you loved and hated and we had no secrets from one another. I knew what to say when you were upset to make things alright again. I felt your pain and I shared your joy. I embraced your strengths and celebrated your differences. I love you and everything about you and the physical limitations of worlds will not change that”. (Katie’s goodbye letter lodged with Fr. Shaw that was to be read out at her funeral mass)
“Emma and Ronan were drawn together by Katie’s ghost. She hovered over them watching them and played matchmaker”. (Emma and Ronan)
“He did not remember Katie was dead and called for her again and again and got concerned as to her where abouts. Their mum Katie was the one true love of his life. The kids told him Katie was dead and he suffered the bereavement again and again as his memory came and went. He then cried uncontrollably and wanted to die to be reunited in death with Katie. He died of a broken heart, a heart attack officially and not of Alzheimer’s disease”. (Ronan’s Death)
“Katie appeared as a ghost and cradled him in her arms and carried him, a frail dying version of her old husband, to heaven. The radio which was powered off suddenly comes on and played their song Follow Me. Nobody could see her only Ronan and he smiled and says “I knew you would come back for me love”. (Ronan)
“He had no fear for there was nothing to fear. He was going to a better place. Katie told him have no fear God had called him his was pain and suffering was to coming to an end. It was the next stage of their life together. This was a beautiful place where there was no pain and suffering but lots of Gods work to be done. As a social worker he had helped a lot of families in Kerry and his life had achieved a lot. Emma felt Katie’s presence and prayed to her to take him quickly he had suffered too much already. Ronan was on life support”. (Ronan Dies and Katie Takes Him To Heaven)
“His death took place on the same day, at the same time of the same month as Katie’s: Monday 12th November at 4am in the morning, on her tenth year anniversary. The old radio suddenly came live and the song Immortality by Celine Dion played. Emma proved you can love the man and hate the disease. She was relieved Ronan’s suffering had ended and that he had gone before her as he was so ill”. (Ronan’s Death)
“Always and Forever was about a love bond so strong that it transcends physical limitations and worlds. Love survived death for both Katie and Ronan and Katie the ghost moves between worlds. In death she remained the protector and the strong one in the marriage. A love divinely blessed in church as a marriage and God appointed Katie as his angel to watch over him and sent her as his angel of death to carry him to heaven. Ronan after Katie’s death became a medium between Katie and the outside world. He saw her and can talk to her”. (From Summary)
“Katie informed us that there was a life ever after, a place called Heaven or Eternal Rest where there was no pain or suffering. She forewarned him of his death and his Alzheimer Disease disappeared. He saw a fast rewind replay of his life and he regained his sanity on his deathbed he got an opportunity to say thanks for everything and goodbye to his loved ones. His gift to Emma was a kiss sealing the gift of a ghost whisperer to Emma so he will never abandon her or the kids. They will communicate forever. He will help her through this life and return watching over her and navigate a path for her into the next life, Heaven.”
(From Summary)
“It was a romantic tale saying we were more than our bodies our soul lives on after death. We shed the outer body but the important bits the soul and heart lives on for eternity”.
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Authors Favourite Quotes from Always and Forever

Always and Forever by Annette Dunlea
ISBN: 9781409272977
pbk € 11.31, download €3.70
Favourite Quotes by The Author:
“One Kerry man seduced and was taking her to the ball. She felt like Cinderella it had taken her 16 and half years to get him to take her out anywhere not a mind to the school ball. How many Saturdays was she dressed up and had no where to go and called next door to Ronan for him to take her for a walk through the muddy dirty fields to feed the animals. He had not noticed her make up or plunging neckline or high heels. She prayed for him as she staggered in her heels over fences and hilly fields but it was all worth it now. Katie was sorted but what about her friends they were so upset they had no dates. What were the girls to do? An emergency cigarette break behind the bicycle shed was called to formulate a plan of action”. (Katie)
“She was emotionally retarded having no sense of humour, cold and no people skills. She was like her mother was obsessed by appearances and wealth and longed to get married to escape from home. Emily was head of her gang, the snobby fashion police”. (Emily)
“On his return to Tralee he called to Katie, with his new teddy boy outfit and scooter. She stood at the cottage door and smiled. She walked outside and examined the bike and sang “Wild Thing”, her sarcasm went over his head. She asked if she could take it for a drive around the fields. The colour drained from his face but after a few minutes of silence he said yes. It was slower than his dad’s tractor but still he was now a man of transport and this was not to be sneezed at. He was coming up in the world a scooter today a Mini Cooper tomorrow. He had gone up in her estimation”. (Katie on Ronan)
“Ronan was normally a shy guy with the nerdy classes and was never a hit with the babes and thought he was been offered it on a plate. He had died and gone to heaven, been in the limelight was all good. This stout was great stuff it totally relaxed him and made him cool and the babes loved it. Who would have guessed it Ronan was a sex machine? He wriggled his hips and enjoyed the moment oblivious to Katie’s glares and killer looks from the edge of the dance floor. Katie stood with a raised complexion with her hands folded across her chest and tapped her heels in irritation. It did her no good, nobody noticed”. (Ronan)
“Emily weighed herself daily and was always on a diet. She spent hours grooming herself before she left the house. She judged people by their wealth and appearance. She was a true Hoare. The bitchy girl was deeply insecure deep down. Men loved her but she was the woman, all women loved to hate. She was Bridget Jones gone wrong. She knew the price of everything and the value of nothing”. (Emily)
“Katie was forced to do the midnight walk of shame in the pitch dark in all her finery with her high heels in her hands bare footed and man less to the taxi base to get a taxi home. She looked like Cinderella having a nervous breakdown with her face and nose red and swollen and with mascara and tears running down her face, looking like a red pumpkin. She vowed she will never be hurt again and if she loves again it will be under her conditions.” (Katie)
“Ronan woke up the following morning with a terrible hangover and a huge sense of regret. He had hurt the woman he loves most in the world and he knew Katie was very strong willed and didn’t forgive easily. Emily had got him drunk to have her evil way with him, it was a wild drunk moment. He set about to win back Katie’s affections. He will do anything for her to date him again”. (Ronan)
“The lads especially Aaron were shouting at him loser. A chorus emerged from the rugby guys singing: “spot, spot, spot, spot the loser. Ronan couldn’t score nothing new there” and they pointed at poor Ronan. He retreated to the safety of the gents to wash his very red face”. (Ronan)
“The journey home was made short by Ronan’s tales of research on love. He confessed to Katie he was not good at expressing his inner feelings. He adopted the Socratic Method and asked all his friends and family for advice. They proved no help so he enlisted the help of Lovely Lucy Looney, the local librarian. He went and researched love, sex and flirting. He spoke of Lucy’s shock on his many visits to the library and his mortification but Katie’s love was worth all embarrassment. She was touched by his Herculean efforts and knew he was her soul mate”. (Ronan)
“Ronan wrote a public apology in the local newspaper, serenaded her at night singing One Way Or Another I’m Going Getcha and I’m Your Man, studied women, seduction and love in the library and went on public radio to win VIP music tickets to Christy Moore’s concert in The Point.” (Ronan)
“Ronan was a national bad boy now, the wild boy who should not be left alone with virgin debutantes. Only, the world did not know it was Ronan who was the frightened virgin and Emily the drunken temptress on the night in question. He was beyond despair and had lost the will to live. He was a dead man walking, His heart and soul was ripped out of his chest. He would never get his decent girl now, his life was over. The media reported that never before had any Irish man being so in love before that he would publicly humiliate himself to win a fair heart”. (Ronan)
“He continued with his research until he found a book entitled The Ultimate Dating Guide: How To Find The Perfect Girlfriend and Keep Them. He flipped through the contents and found the chapter called flirting with confidence. He took out a pen and notebook from his back pocket and scribbled some notes. Praise her body the book advised. Tell her you find her attractive. He decided he would record the key phrases and chose the right moment to recite these to Katie. He wrote you have come to bed eyes. Your eyes were the key to the soul and I like what I see”. (Ronan)
“Bridezellia was like General Patton she had an Operations Room, HQ established in her sitting room. Wall charts, to do lists, pictures, contact lists, mood charts, a calendar, list of dates and jobs were marked off with daily duties in her thick black diary. Her second in command was Saoirse, her local wedding planner. Nothing was going to be left to chance and nobody was going to ruin her prefect day. No expense was to be spared and fools were not suffered gladly. Raised voices were constantly heard in her phone calls to suppliers. Her personality changed and she became a hot head, losing her patience easily. Nobody entered her sitting room, the twilight zone without an invitation”. (Katie)
“During the pictures Katie hand picked the people who were allowed stand in for wedding photographs ugly and fat people were asked to stand out of shot. She even edited her wedding video after her honeymoon and had herself and Ronan air brushed to look perfect”. (Katie)
“When she was 17 she was heading for a professional jockey career when she had a tragic accident at the Grand National Competition ending any hopes of a professional horse riding career. She fell off Star and was trodden on by another horse. She lay lifeless crying on the track. She was rushed by ambulance to hospital and remained seriously ill for a fortnight. She was badly bruised and had internal injuries”. (Emma)
“She locked her pain deep inside her and concentrated on being the happy person everybody wanted her to be. She studied and studied and was only at peace riding Star who loved her disabled or not. His love was non judgmental. She could be herself. She could cry or laugh or just ride for hours on end and feel the air in her hair and breathe in the oxygen deep into her lungs, she was alive on Star. Star became her legs”. (Emma)
“Fate had dedicated that love’s path would not run smoothly. Katie kept a secret from her husband and can they survive this? She had a lump in her breast. She was terrified it was cancer; her mum had died of it. A month later she got so sick she collapsed and had to be hospitalized. Tests revealed she had inoperable cancer. Surgery was no use nor was chemotherapy or radiography”. (Katie)
“She investigated her options and booked herself into a hospice for the end of her life; she will protect her family to the very end. She organized her funeral, wrote her will and wrote an electronic manual on DVD and letter saying goodbye to her kids and husband. She wrote an encyclopedic survival manual for Ronan on running the house and on rearing the kids. For months she took her camcorder with her giving graphic illustrations on how to use household appliances and showed him the locations of dentists, doctors, hospitals, chemists, schools, library, playgrounds etc. The background music on the DVD was the two popular songs I Love You Always and Forever and Honey”. (Katie)
“She left all her assets and money to Ronan and the kids but she willed her husband and kids to her sister Emma. Ronan needed someone to look after him and her babies needed a mum. She also knew her sister was very lonely and longed to be a wife and mum. She was dying but she still had choices and used her freewill to organize the end of her life and life after her death. She died in the hospice brave to the very end.”(Katie)
“At the graveside Emma sang In The Arms of an Angel. Suddenly the roaring wind stopped unexplainably. Ronan was very lonely and Katie as a ghost watched her funeral with mixed emotions”. (Katie’s Burial)
“She blew a warm breeze on his face and rustled his hair and embraced him in a warm haze and he felt her nonthreatening presence. She looked down and saw his face stained with tears, nobody could reach him in his grief but she could. He saw her and blew her a kiss goodbye. She flew down in a haze in a white dress with wings and whispered into his ear “please don’t cry I am in a better place. Marriage was forever. Love and life was forever. My body died but my soul lives on for eternity”. (Katie)
“The rain stopped suddenly and the grey sky cleared into a bright blue colour and a glowing warm orange sun appeared to show her appreciation. A perfect blue sky remained on the dark winter’s day until after the ceremony and the hailstone and rain commenced again and the dark sky reappeared as the funeral car drove away”. (Katie’s Burial)
“Remember me as the girl who married you, the woman who had your babies, who kept your house, weeded your garden, your soul mate and best friend. I was the woman who could make you laugh and cry. I could calm you when you were upset but yet infuriate you also like no other. For the passion and the love we shared, I thank-you. I could read your mind and finish your sentences. I knew everything you loved and hated and we had no secrets from one another. I knew what to say when you were upset to make things alright again. I felt your pain and I shared your joy. I embraced your strengths and celebrated your differences. I love you and everything about you and the physical limitations of worlds will not change that”. (Katie’s goodbye letter lodged with Fr. Shaw that was to be read out at her funeral mass)
“Emma and Ronan were drawn together by Katie’s ghost. She hovered over them watching them and played matchmaker”. (Emma and Ronan)
“He did not remember Katie was dead and called for her again and again and got concerned as to her where abouts. Their mum Katie was the one true love of his life. The kids told him Katie was dead and he suffered the bereavement again and again as his memory came and went. He then cried uncontrollably and wanted to die to be reunited in death with Katie. He died of a broken heart, a heart attack officially and not of Alzheimer’s disease”. (Ronan’s Death)
“Katie appeared as a ghost and cradled him in her arms and carried him, a frail dying version of her old husband, to heaven. The radio which was powered off suddenly comes on and played their song Follow Me. Nobody could see her only Ronan and he smiled and says “I knew you would come back for me love”. (Ronan)
“He had no fear for there was nothing to fear. He was going to a better place. Katie told him have no fear God had called him his was pain and suffering was to coming to an end. It was the next stage of their life together. This was a beautiful place where there was no pain and suffering but lots of Gods work to be done. As a social worker he had helped a lot of families in Kerry and his life had achieved a lot. Emma felt Katie’s presence and prayed to her to take him quickly he had suffered too much already. Ronan was on life support”. (Ronan Dies and Katie Takes Him To Heaven)
“His death took place on the same day, at the same time of the same month as Katie’s: Monday 12th November at 4am in the morning, on her tenth year anniversary. The old radio suddenly came live and the song Immortality by Celine Dion played. Emma proved you can love the man and hate the disease. She was relieved Ronan’s suffering had ended and that he had gone before her as he was so ill”. (Ronan’s Death)
“Always and Forever was about a love bond so strong that it transcends physical limitations and worlds. Love survived death for both Katie and Ronan and Katie the ghost moves between worlds. In death she remained the protector and the strong one in the marriage. A love divinely blessed in church as a marriage and God appointed Katie as his angel to watch over him and sent her as his angel of death to carry him to heaven. Ronan after Katie’s death became a medium between Katie and the outside world. He saw her and can talk to her”. (From Summary)
“Katie informed us that there was a life ever after, a place called Heaven or Eternal Rest where there was no pain or suffering. She forewarned him of his death and his Alzheimer Disease disappeared. He saw a fast rewind replay of his life and he regained his sanity on his deathbed he got an opportunity to say thanks for everything and goodbye to his loved ones. His gift to Emma was a kiss sealing the gift of a ghost whisperer to Emma so he will never abandon her or the kids. They will communicate forever. He will help her through this life and return watching over her and navigate a path for her into the next life, Heaven.”
(From Summary)
“It was a romantic tale saying we were more than our bodies our soul lives on after death. We shed the outer body but the important bits the soul and heart lives on for eternity”.

authors favourite quotes from The Honey Trap

The Honey Trap by Annette Dunlea
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“Well I had the perfect job, perfect house and perfect family and I didn’t know it. I kept striving for more. All tasks had to be done 15 times to avoid mistakes I became a little obsessive. I threw myself into my career as a librarian as the kids were getting ready to go to university. I only got paid for a 35 hour week but I worked a 50 hour week. I even brought work home to double check it but I was the first female head of IT in an academic librarian, a mostly male domain. I had more to prove being female that I could be career orientated and I would not ring in sick if I was needed to look after the kids. I disciplined my subordinates severely and slated their work to show I could be as big a bitch as any man. Nobody made it easy for me as a woman to get to the top and I wasn’t going to help another female to advance her career either. I did not care whose toes I stood on to get to the top”.

“Anger then took over hysteria and they went on a campaign of tearing all wedding photographs, his legal documents, his sports awards, his scrap book of media clippings, his bank cards, driving license, anything belonging to him. Felicity then rang their bank manager, now brave with a few brandies inside her and closed all their bank accounts and cancelled all their cards. Anger made her feel empowered and feel less of a victim at least she could control this feeling and it was a form of release. The following day she visited the credit union and post office and closed their savings accounts and set up a new branch account in a different bank in her maiden name. Next she rang the estate agents and put the manor up for sale. The revenge continued for the week and she put an advertisement on the local paper and sold James’ sports car, his coupe for half its retail value just to annoy him. She then rang the newspaper and put a false death notice, footballer killed by his own hand in the paper”.

“Felicity continued to drink heavily too and Erin affectionately named her Shaky Murphy as her hands shock constantly with the DTS. In Spain Lola made a financial settlement of Euro 1 million for stealing Felicity’s husband.”

“The flat had the look and damp smell of poverty. There were no luxuries here: no cushions, throw, rug, picture nor pair of curtain, only the very basics. Gillian had bought the table and chairs and beds, the whole of the family furniture second-hand weekly down in the open air second hand stalls on Dublin quay. The women who ran these stalls were called the Shawlie Maggies and they saw her bruises and heard the stories of her husband the local drunk and gambler, the husband from hell and gave her cheaply some second hand clothes and some fruit and vegetables for the kids and herself. It was for Gillian and the kids a tough life with many disappointments. Despite this Gillian had a solid head on her shoulders and a great sense of humour and this got her through the worst of times”.

“A full night’s sleep without money worries was a luxury. They were afraid to answer the door to strangers as they often could not pay the rent and had no TV license. They lived in fear of been brought to court for bad debts. They became master liars and a sarcastic tongue and cheeky nature were vital survival skills people learned in Wasteside. They pretended to officials at front doors they were child minders and they refused to accept or sign anything official or registered in case it was a summons.”

“One by one the desperate duo clicked the hypertext to read the websites. They were impressed by a Dublin man, an ex-Dublin guard Inspector Mick who promised a discrete investigation and confidentiality guaranteed and high success rate”.

“Again pushy Katherine took control of the situation and said: “We have just found out her husband has a gay lover. Sorry but there is no nice way to put it but she needs an M.O.T., to get the all clear and to make sure she hasn’t got aids and such like”. Her sister was quite proud of her summary of the situation and had wondered why the pair of them felt so ill at ease going to see posh college graduates in a posh clinic. It must be that Wasteside chip of poverty on their shoulders. Sure weren’t the posh crowd the worst adulators of all, she rationalized. She applauded herself silently for marrying a man from the Northside they were poorer but they made better husbands. It was a known fact she heard it in the pub. It took a few pints but all women were honest drunk and it was a national hobby, Northsiders (Council Estate Residents) and Southsiders (Private Estate Residents) alike, husband bashing. Had the situation not been so traumatic for Ava it would have been funny seeing the doctor gown up and put on a white gown, mask, hat and click on his white rubber gloves, he was like a space doctor, thought Katherine. He was even wearing co-coordinating white wellies”.

“At first, they joked about it but as they became more detoxed and more assertive from therapy, paid ironically by the husbands, they began to realize that they each had unique strengths and powers and a burning desire for revenge. Between the Three Wise Women they had an IT expert, an actress and a supermodel, all very wealthy and beautiful. All the three men’s’ brains appeared to reside in their pants and they wondered if they set a honey trap could it possibly work. A plan was proposed by Felicity and she called it Operation Devastation. Angelina would hack into their MIS computer systems, bug their telephones, offices, cars and homes. Ava would seduce Ryan, who owned Novels and the computer firm, Angelina’s husband in a honey trap and get it all on DVD for the divorce court. Then Ava would seduce Felicity’s husband, James, the Irish footballer. Finally, Sean who was Felicity’s friend who was an out of work actor would seduce Patrick”.

“Like Felicity they methodically checked the house office, safe and family bank account details and financial affairs. Angelina then had Inspector Mick bug the boys’ homes, cars and offices and with the information she acquired came knowledge and contacts. She wrote a programme called listen, it saved all conversations digitally and converted it to text into a computer file in a remote location not traceable to her or anybody at 3WW but it recorded all his illicit dealings and it gave her valuable information. She hacked into their individual MIS computer systems and sent spyware via e-mail called virus protection free download and once opened it went through their c drive, all files on their computers, and copied all files to a ip address of a remote computer of Angelina’s request, in a phantom company named Borrow. All data was heavily encrypted and deleted after access and storage was onto an external hard drive storage box, deleting the electronic footpath. The spyware recorded their strokes on the keyboard and Angelina was able to secure even their banking pins and passwords and all their computer passwords. She had a brilliant computer mind, wasted in librarianship”.

“Ava was blessed with amazing beauty but was academically challenged. Angelina tried to give her a quick introduction to computers but was horrified at Ava’s lack of knowledge and complete failure to understand. Ava called the CD drawer the cup holder and honestly thought it was her holding her coffee or drink when typing. She thought the monitor was the telly and the mouse was the roller. She kept exiting programmes instead of closing documents and kept deleting items and forgetting to save things. Things happened Angelina’s computers that never happened before: programs failed to respond and the computer kept crashing. She typed e-mails and then printed them and put them in an envelope to post them, Angelina was speechless. She even killed a machine by constant abuse for the week. It just died the screen went blank and a message came up of fundamental hard drive failure, the monitor went black and the keyboard and mouse went dead and could not be restored. It went to the computer scrap yard, RIP. Angelina ran her out of the IT dept in their firm terrified she’d cause any more mayhem. She was the absolute blonde bombshell when it came to computers”.

“Duties were allocated and their meeting was adjourned until after the second honey trap by Ava. Angelina and Felicity would stay at base HQ and download data and run the company and thoroughly go through all accounts retrieved from the husband’s computers. It would be put into separate files for each husband, heavily encrypted and stored on a remote hard drive and a back up made daily on the company server. All figures would be inputted into excel spreadsheets and final figures would determine of each mans financial worth”.

“As planned The Three Wise Women meet at 3WW HQ for debriefing. Angelina extracted the small camera from her lapel and downloaded it onto a laptop. She then expertly digitally scanned the Polaroid into her electronic file on James. Ava had just missed Sean who had given his camcorder and photographs of himself and Patrick to Angelina. It had been digitally downloaded and formatted onto Patrick’s pc file. A back-up of all data was done on the Company server but it was heavily encrypted and written in Angelina’s own program Borrow and used her own software Gotya, so only the very best could break her code and that would take months”.

“It did not discriminate by ones sexuality. The Paradisers judged each person as an individual on their own merits. Interestingly, The Three Wise Women allowed Patrick and Ryan to run their own companies and allowed James a key senior management role. The husbands had the experience, education and skills”

“Geographically the island had dramatic coastline of secret coves and forests. It was surrounded by water of turquoise colour and reef. It had rich, fertile lands and a very hot temperature all year round. All year the temperature averaged 105 degrees. It got a bit cooler at night but people could still sleep under the stars and sky. It had very little rainfall and no snow or frost. Temperatures dropped a little in the winter”.

“It had pale golden sands and clear cloudless blue skies. Rich quantities of palm trees and exotic flowers in dramatic red and fuchsia pink and bright yellow colours enhanced the islands beauty. The gardens were decorated with white Balinese furniture and the Japanese rock gardens with mythical dragons, lions, dinosaurs, elephants, nymphs, and man beasts (half men and half beast) in concrete large statutes and red bridges over goldfish ponds. A large loch housed swans and pink flamingos.”

“She looked around and recognized some faces. Stella had the floor: “I suffer from alcoholism and sex addiction but I can do one without the other. Sober or drunk I felt lonely and mostly drunk I use hit the town from a man. I fell in love on a daily basis but the trouble was I could never remember his name when I woke up. I woke some mornings and jumped to find a stranger in my bed. The trouble was the more drunk I got the more attractive the man looked and the more affectionate I became. By the end of the night I was so pissed I could have been having sex with anyone. I use think one day I would meet the one of my dreams. I felt I could bonk Mr. Perfect until he loved me. I spent all my money on the demon drink and ended up in debtor’s court the judge sent me here. I wept on the dock and begged not to send me to jail to be someone’s bitch, my kids needed me.”

“She texted Ava and Felicity and asked them to make informal advances to the town council and ask if she could establish AA meetings in Paradise. She sent the messages and hid the phone down her knickers again to avoid detection on room spot checks for contraband by Nurse Fiona. She laid back and slept soundly for the night. During the night a number of males had slipped their names and room numbers under her door for adult company if she was lonely at any stage, kind souls. It took two days but when Angelina was in the gym her phone in her knickers began to vibrate and she ran into the toilet to read her text messages the men that mattered from Paradise said yes to AA”.

“My problem is I love sex. No joking I really love sex. Life without sex is unbearable for me. As a child my mum says I loved men and hated women. I use smile at men when I was in the pram and offer them lollipops or sweeties. I guess it is in my genes, my little weakness. I can live without the Valium and Vodka but not my sex. To me my choice is simple men or Paradise and I love them both. I cannot make that choice. It is like there is some evil force driving me to flirt and sleep around. No one man has ever been enough for me and now I have to live like a nun in rehab. I am not bold I am just misunderstood. No, don’t laugh it is an illness and an exhausting one I am so tired, so very tired”.

“They were empowered and fulfilled. They dated occasionally but were just as happy living the feminist dream of a professional woman not answerable to any man. Do what they wanted to, go where they wanted to and spend indecent amount of money on clothes and shoes, it was all good. There were not slaves to diets, shaving hairy legs, waxing eyebrows, dying their roots, endless showers, applying tons of make-up and trying to be domestic goddesses. They could slum around in leisure suits and runners reading Cosmo with a fag in their mouth and a cup of coffee in their hands. There could be slummy mummies or tidy queens or takeaway junkies it all depended on their daily rota and social live. Good, freedom was definitely good. One husband in a lifetime was enough for them”.

“Both Ava and Felicity dumped their men they could be happy with or without men. They had a choice. Their new motto was:” find them, feed them, feck them and leave them”. They were empowered and fulfilled”.

“Felicity recorded in her memoirs that Operation Devastation was a chart buster and won many Oscars and Emmys. It was new in its time sex, fame, dirty money, revenge and paradise…what a journey. It was everybody’s dream to get revenge on an ex-boyfriend or give up work and live in Paradise. Felicity recorded Rory did allow The Three Wise Women input a lot into the scripts and experts were employed to research the themes like addiction, depression, abuse and adultery in a fair and balanced way. The victims of these were given a voice and it gave a forum for people to discuss these topics and be mature and grow up and face problems.”

My Blog of the Week 30/3/09

 

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I’m coming to the Salon quite a bit later than usual this week but for a very good reason. One of my best girlfriends has been in town for a conference since Wednesday, but since the formal activities were over with, and her flight isn’t until later this evening, we had all day to hang out and enjoy the gorgeous weather Richmond’s having today. We slept in, hit my favorite brunch spot, and walked through some fun shops, then we came home and spent several hours reading out on the back porch. I’m sporting some light sunburn, but it was otherwise completely delightful.

Now, the oven and grill are pre-heating, and hubby and I are preparing to enjoy our first round of burgers-and-dogs of spring. This is much more active than my usual Sunday, but it’s been pretty fantastic.

I had big plans for the past week, but work got a bit crazy (the tends to happen when your computer goes down for three days straight), and I was busy cleaning the house and preparing for our guest, so my reading and blogging time was more limited than I expected. I wasn’t around much, but I did get to review two wonderful books—My Little Red Book and The Purity Myth—for my celebration of Women’s History Month.

And, oh yes, I finished The Angel’s Game. I’m still pondering how much to reveal (and when to do so), since the release date is almost three months out. (June 16th. Mark your calendars.) But let me tell you, I loved it. The language is gorgeous; the story is engrossing; and the whole book has this mystical, gothic feel that makes it hard to believe it wasn’t written a hundred years ago. Awesome!

I started Supergirls Speak Out this morning, and while it is (so far) a little more self-help-y and a little less theoretical than I’d hoped, it is interesting and seems to be a relatively quick read.

In non-book-related news, I finally saw Slumdog Millionaire last night, and while I enjoyed it, I was pretty underwhelmed. One thing that never leaves me disappointed

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The Honey Trap by A nnette J Dunlea

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CONTENT

 

 

Chapter One Angelina the Super Clever IT Expert

 

Chapter Two Felicity the Actress and Super Strategist

 

Chapter Three Ava the Super Model

 

Chapter Four Operation Devastation

 

Chapter Five Web of Deceit Unveiled

 

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All three women’s lives began humbly and they rose to join the rich and famous and end up in rehab together suffering a common problem. Their perfect world crashed and everything was in jeopardy. They struggled to regain life and keep their families together. Sex, fame, dirty money, drink and drugs and deceit are the main themes. This is the tale of three ordinary women that fate ruins their lives but they find in themselves an inner strength, for their kids’ sake, with their three combined skills and assets to change lady luck.

Angelina O’Reilly was a forty year old lady. She lived a few miles outside Douglas in Cork city. She was a first class honours graduate from U.C.D. in computers and librarianship and was currently employed as a professional librarian in a university research library. She was head of IT Service which meant she ran the computer services section, trained the library staff in IT systems and headed the Divisional Management Team. She had a lively and engaging manner and many hobbies; art, music, reading, swimming, jogging and a socialite. For rest and relaxation she went to the gym and to unleash her emotions she wrote poetry. She was as beautiful as she was clever.

Felicity Murphy hailed from the Dublin Mountains and bought and restored a ruined country manor on top of the Dingle mountains overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. A mother of four and married to a professional footballer for the Irish team, James Barrett. She was once a stunning redhead in her youth when she was an Irish actress but had since having the kids devoted herself to married life and becoming a homemaker. She had been so busy minding and loving others she let herself go.

Her long red mane was now short and salt and pepper grey. Her slim figure had now plummeted to a huge 14 stone. She was not a pretty sight in her baggy tops and sweatpants. Her skin was dull and her chocolate eyes sad. She looked like a whale in her not so little black dress. Like Bridget Jones big knickers and huge bras were a necessary part of her wardrobe. Her tights were support tights and gravity was working against her. Her confident and bubbly personality had long gone she was now dull and bitter. Her live was spiralling out of control. She was depressed, fat, lonely and an alcoholic. For comfort she turned to Pringles, ice-cream and chocolate, washed down with a bottle of Cava. She ate because she no longer felt sexy then she felt guilty so she ate more being depressed and she continued to put on weight and the cycle continued and she got fat and fatter.

She was as far away from Posh and Becks as Marg and Homer Simpson were and she looked more like Homer than Marg. So why was it such a surprise to her that her husband ended up in bed with a glamorous page three model and fathered a secret lovechild? She hated James so why she was so desperately hurt. James took a sacred marriage pledge ten years ago to live forever with her in sickness and in health, for richer or poorer, in a church witnessed by all their families and friends. What had happened to the pledge now and he hadn’t even the decency to tell her himself. He let her find herself the hard way, tormented for days on end wondering was she imagining he was having an affair. She was the last to know friends and relatives told her it was only rumours and they firmly believed no man had the right to destroy another’s marriage. She probably wouldn’t have believed it anyway unless she saw the evidence with her own eyes. Her neighbours’ pity hurt her most and she did not appreciate it or need it.

Ava Mc Sweeney was Ireland’s first supermodel. In her stocking feet she stood tall at 6 ft 2 “, had perfect skin, long blonde hair, blue eyes and weighed 7 stone. She lived in the luxury private estate of Manor Heights in Co. Limerick with her husband Patrick, the famous hairdresser to the rich and famous and their only son Matty. Ava frequently graced the catwalks of Dublin, Paris, Milan and Rome and she was the face of the International cosmetics house Beauty International. She lived a live of opulence and was a famous socialite and was frequently photographed for the papers for society columnist photos of the rich celebs who attended last weeks party.

To the outside world she had it made, wealth, beauty, brilliant career and lifestyle and family. While not very clever she had a warm and friendly nature so people found it easy to connect with her. She was gentle and shy in large social gatherings until she had a few glasses of wine and then she became the life and soul of the party. She drank quickly to help her relax and often got drunk early in the party and at that stage she burst into song, all her anxieties went. She was a bit of a character. The newspaper often labelled her: “the supermodel without a clue”.

But life was not always this glamorous. Her therapy session with Dr. Andrew was heartbreaking, it even shocked him. Ava was born into a poor family who lived in the council estate of Wasteside, Co. Dublin. Her father Johnny lived off social welfare. Her mum Gillian was the breadwinner and was a cleaning lady for a local cleaning firm and she scrubbed local factories and shopping centres from 7am to 6pm six days a week. Every penny she earned of her hard earned cash Johnny beat out of her to fund his drink habit. He had not worked since he was 21 and was out on the sick with a bad back but his back always managed to get him to the pub. On going out to the pub at night he told the wife and kids put on their coats he was leaving and he was turning off the heating. She sat on the stairs as a child with her two siblings waiting for the father to come home drunk and pick a fight with her mum. This would inevitably lead to Johnny throwing furniture around the house and physically beat up on her mum. Embarrassed by the domestic abuse Gillian lied and told family and friends she was clumsy and kept falling down stairs or walking into doors.

 

Ava and Felicity found reconciliation with their husbands impossible and threw parties and did the happy dance when their divorces came threw. However, time healed all wounds and spurred on by the romance of Paradise ……………

 

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Always and Forever by Annette Dunlea A Preview

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Always and Forever by Annette Dunlea

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ISBN: 9781409272977

“May God grant you always,


A sunbeam to warm you,


A moonbeam to charm you,


A sheltering angel, so nothing can harm you.”

 

Irish Proverb

CONTENTS

 

Chapter One: The Childhood Years

 

Chapter Two: Katie Had A Secret Admirer Alexander

 

Chapter Three: Ronan Tries To Win Katie Back

 

Chapter Four: A Wedding

 

Chapter Five: Life After Marriage

 Quotes:

The Bowens had a more modest farm of ten acres of land. It could not support the family and the father Adam was forced to get a second job as a full-time mechanic in town. Although they grew up together and were always best friends they fell out for a while but true love found a way home but will destiny intervene? A bitter sweet tale of how life cannot be planned and love comes when we don’t expect it in all shapes and forms. Katie Bowen was an attractive girl at 16 with long brown curly hair and hazel brown eyes. Her full name was Katherine which was Greek for pure but she preferred to be called Katie. She had a slim figure and weighed 8 stone. She was petite and cute at 5 ft 6 inches. She was a live wire with an outgoing and bubbly personality. She had a variety of interests. She adored her animals, loved tennis, swimming, singing, dancing and adored the new rock and roll music. She was a modern feminist that oozed sexuality and confidence.

Emma is Katie’s sister and becomes Ronan’s second wife

Emma was a pretty 18 years old with long brown tight curly hair. She was fair skin with lots of freckles and big sexy sapphire blue eyes with long eye lashes. She was an angel: kind, sweet, insightful and thoughtful. She was a member of the Legion of Mary and the church choir and the local stables where she trained kids for horse jumping competitions. In the past Emma had won many rosettes and trophies and horses were a huge part of her life. On the home farm she kept her winning horse a stallion with a white star on his muzzle and he was called Star. He had a lovely palomino golden body with a lighter coloured mane and tail. He had chocolate brown eyes and it was a present from her granddad Dillon when she was ten years old and she had been riding him since then. Every spare minute she got she spent in the stables grooming and feeding and exercising Star. He had bright eyes, a shiny coat; his nose was clean and dry and had a great appetite. He loved mints, turnips and carrots as treats. He was alert to his environment and showed this by pricking his ears forward and listened and noticed everything. Star was by nature curious. He was quiet eating in the paddock alone but he came alive when he trained with Thunder and Jessie he loved their company. Star often slept standing up and he stood watch if Thunder and Jessie slept. Emma was constantly grooming, touching and talking to Star it was all part of the bonding process.

 She locked her pain deep inside her and concentrated on being the happy person everybody wanted her to be. She studied and studied and was only at peace riding Star who loved her disabled or not. His love was non judgmental. She could be herself. She could cry or laugh or just ride for hours on end and feel the wind run through her hair and breathe in the oxygen deep into her lungs, she was alive on Star. Star became her legs.

                                                                             

When she was 17 she was heading for a professional jockey career when she had a tragic accident at the Grand National Competition ending any hopes of a professional horse riding career. She fell off Star and was trodden on by another horse. She lay lifeless crying on the track. She was rushed by ambulance to hospital and remained seriously ill for a fortnight. She was badly bruised and had internal injuries. Her right arm was fractured, her face black and blue and swollen, her two legs broken and her spine was badly damaged but not broken. After x-rays and ct scans and a MRI, surgery was needed after stabilizing her. She suffered a series of epileptic fits. She was in Cork University Hospital for a month and then sent to Dublin for spinal surgery and to learn to walk with a limp and with the aid of a stick. On longer journeys she would need a wheelchair for the rest of her life. It was amazing at all she learnt to walk it was pure strength of character and hard work. She would be left with a bad back, epilepsy and a limp. She learned to walk and ride again after 12 months but she could no longer bear the pain of training and another fall might put her in a wheelchair all the time, it was her secret cross and a one she found heavy to carry.  

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The Honey Trap

This is a tale of toxic men and women who recover to build a new live for their kids.

Reviews:
“A Irish Sex in the City”
“Desperate Housewives come to Ireland”

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Description:
Angelina, Ava and Felicity were three rich women living the good life. These beautiful women lived unknown to each other in different parts of Ireland until they met up in rehab. They had it all until their toxic husbands ruin everything. They cast them aside to be forgotten. The girls get well and decide to reap revenge. They punish the boys and escape to Paradise. This is Desperate Housewives in Ireland. It is a tale about maternal love and the lengths they will go to keep their family together.

Keywords:
rehab, divorce, hate, love, strength, family, men, husbands, loves, sex, Pardise, dating

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Always and Forvever Katie the Rose of Tralee

Always and Forever by Annette Dunlea

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Background:
This is based on my aunt who died of cancer and left a letter organising her funeral. It is a celebration of a couragous woman whom I miss desperately.Also my great grandad married his dead wife’s sister after his wife died of TB to rear the kids and run the farm. This is where my inspiration came from.This is a highly fictionalized version of her brave story.

This is a sweet tale of supernatural love. It give us hope. Love is forever. Marriage is forever. When we tale of our body departs but our spirit and love lives on forever. We will all be united in the next life.

Reviews:
“A coming of age tale about Katie who wins the Rose of Tralee and marries the man of her dreams. A strong woman who falls victim to cancer but not even this will stop her. She protects her husband and leaves him a manual and a will to help him survive after her death. She organises her funeral. She wills her kids and husband to her sister Emma. She hoovers over them as a ghost and makes Emma and Ronan fall in love. As a spirit she rejects her husband to allow him fall in love with her sister.”

” A sweet supernatural tale told in an easy style”.

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short story Goodbye from my novel Always and Forever

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Abstract: Katie discovered she had inoperable cancer and she was dying. She viewed it as a second chance and enjoyed life until the end. She organized her own funeral and helped her family cope with her diagnosis. (Two part story)

Goodbye

Fate had dedicated that love’s path was not to run smoothly. Katie kept a terrible secret from her husband Ronan but can they survive this? She only wanted to protect him but she needed him more than ever now. She walked the floors at night with the pain in her chest and then suddenly when showering she spotted a large lump under her arm and extending across her breast. She feared the worst and could not cope with it she went into denial. She was terrified it was cancer; her mum had died of it. She cried herself to sleep at night terrified that she would lose her dream life with her perfect husband and kids in her dream home, that was a terrifying prospect. The pain got gradually more and more intense.

An orange peel scab slowly spread all over her left breast and the shape of her breast changed and it became tender. Then she noticed a small lump on the other breast with the same disfigurement and pain. She walked around the house alone by day when Ronan worked and the kids were at school with a hot water bottle up against her chest. Inwardly, she was sick with worry but outside she pretended everything was fine. She was literally fighting to hold on to life. She got weaker as the days passed. Ronan kept asking her if she was losing weight and not well, she feigned it was only a virus. There was something wrong with her but he could not put his finger on it. He saw pain and anxiety in her eyes. She looked tired and deadly pale. He feared she had an affair and was pregnant by an old ex boyfriend Alex. He was suddenly ringing him a couple of times a week and he had sent her a couple of bouquets of flowers. When he discovered the truth he was tortured with guilt. Psychic Katie knew his fears but loved him too much to confront him. She had in a way betrayed his trust confiding in an ex boyfriend.

            Katie could confide in Alex as he was outside the family but there was a relationship of trust there. They often told each other secrets and exchanged phone calls and Christmas and Birthday cards. He looked up his reference books in his home library and told her it sounded like cancer and begged her to get immediate medical help. Alex. also did research on hospices and even on assisted suicide in Holland for her at her request and required the information she needed. He did not pressure her to make a decision in whether to commit suicide or go into a hospice. He agreed to bring her to Holland if she wanted a lethal injection to die should she choose to prevent being a burden on her family and to die with dignity. He knew she had great strength and pride like himself and that was what had attracted him to her. He felt that was tough love and he was prepared to do that for her. He wept when he was alone he had always loved her. He settled to be her best friend instead. Even on her deathbed he felt he could not tell her he loved her. Katie knew and it said a lot she turned to him when she was in most need when she could not confide in her husband. He kept a picture in his safe of himself and Katie dancing together when they were dating in the Tralee Manor Hotel. He kissed it everyday, although now a happily married man. He regretted she was the one that got away from him.

A month later Katie helped Emma her sister organize an anniversary mass to commerate their mum’s nineth death anniversary. She kept herself busy at work to avoid concentrating on her health. During the mass Katie felt a sudden harsh bolt of pain and collapsed. She had been praying to her mum to help her, her kids were so young they could not survive without a mum and poor Ronan depended on her for everything. She fainted with the pain and was unconscious for a few minutes. Emma her sister brought her around but she had not the energy to get up. She knew she was in trouble, it was as if Grace gave her the help she begged her for in her prayers. It was a release not to hide her unbearable pain, her secret was out. She asked Ronan to call an ambulance by a whisper in his ear. She had got the gift of acceptance from her mum that she was very ill. Her legs would not carry her, she could not support her own weight.

Ronan soothed her that everything would be alright. She was taken by ambulance with Ronan to the Accident and Emergency Room of the local hospital. He held her hand tightly and kissed her forehead talking reassuringly to her. There she was examined by a number of doctors and put in a private room in the Emergency Room. Then a senior surgeon on duty in ER Professor O’Callaghan was called and he ordered his think tank to do immediately a series of tests. He examined her breasts and she screamed in pain but he would not commit to any diagnosis. He was solemn and only asked medical questions and was able to describe her pain and tenderness exactly. He sent the team into quick action. He got her a bed on a ward upstairs but first he gave her an injection which gave her pain relief. She sighed with relief she had been in agony for weeks. She had many blood tests and was then sent for a series of x-rays. She was up and down to the x-ray dept all night. It came as no surprise to her she was placed in the cancer ward. Ronan made sure she was settled before Ronan got a taxi home at 2 am. She stayed in hospital for a few days but not before her diagnosis of breast cancer was confirmed.

She wasn’t surprised by the results, she knew them as Grace her mum had appeared to her as a ghost in the hospital and stood at the foot of her bed and told her she had a fatal breast cancer and she had a place in Heaven for her, her suffering would soon end. Grace said to her The Bowen Family had always had the psychic gift to speak to the other side. She promised she would suffer no more pain she would get pure morphine right up to the end. She told her of the hospice nurses and facilities and that Alex and Emma would be a rock of help to her in her final days. Grace reminded her that she had a good life the kids never had any serious accident or illnesses and nobody died prematurely in their family except her and she had agreed to go. When she was drawn to the light she followed the angel willingly. That night Katie was given an emergency blood transfusion. Katie held her tongue when the doctor asked to meet her with Ronan the following day to give her the results. She held Ronan’s hand to support him as the doctor told she had stage: 4 cancer. She squeezed his hand gently and he could not stop the tears flow down his face. His one and only love was dying. His life was put on sudden stop and he would never be happy again not without his wife and mother of his children. He was heart broken. Katie rose from bed and was now stronger after the blood transfusion and hugged him. Tests revealed she had inoperable cancer. Surgery was no use nor was chemotherapy or radiography. She had twelve months to live maybe less.

Katie booked herself out of Tralee hospital a few days later as she had a funeral to organize and the rest of her life to live. She rang Alex on his mobile phone and told him  in a matter of fact way that her diagnosis of stage 4 breast cancer was confirmed. She was dying. He promised to help her any way he could and pledged any money she needed. She asked him to contact the hospice and book her a bed. She was not going to waste one minute of life, her time left on earth was precious. Once home she contacted the hospice and organized a nurse to visit her home and administer morphine. Alex arranged for a second consultant in Cork in a private clinic to get a second opinion. He confirmed the inevitable and showed the cancer spread all over her by x-rays, shadows were everywhere. There was no denying it, it just had to be accepted by all, even shell shocked Ronan. Ronan was in pieces but Katie was once again the strong one and consoled him. They promised each other the happiest and most memorable year of their lives.

Part Two

Katie set about organizing her own funeral and writing a DVD of survival for Ronan and the kids. Alex flew home from his villa in France to Ireland to say goodbye to her when she was still good. It would be the last time they would meet he wanted to remember her as her old self not a sick person dying in hospital. He did not want to see her die, he would not be able to deal with that pain. He drove her to the hospice to book her bed and pushed her in a wheelchair and gave her a guided tour of it. They met with the staff and talked to some of the patients. She wanted to protect Ronan from that he would not have been able for it. Alex drove her to the funeral undertakers and to the solicitors. He was her rock. He left after two weeks and goodbye really was goodbye. He pecked her goodbye on the cheek and told her he would step back and leave her have the next few months with her family. He promised to ring her regularly and attend her funeral. They both wept as he drove off. It was the end of a very special friendship.

To the world Katie had coped brilliantly with the news. However, in the dark of night Katie snuck down stairs for coffee and wept at the prospect at leaving her beloved husband and the kids she would not see grow up. While she sobbed downstairs Ronan sobbed silently in bed. She used have her cry and wash her face and then make two cup of coffees and bring one up to Ronan. She was by then composed and he was surprised that she always knew when he was awake and upset. He missed her body heat from the bed and woke automatically when she left it. They use sit up and chat into the early hours of the morning. She appointed Ronan as her carer when she was so ill she could do nothing for herself. She forced him to face her death and spoke frankly to him about it and her choices. He allowed her use her free will to organize things for when she was so ill she could not help herself. She told him she had booked herself into a hospice for the end when she was near dying. Sometimes they laughed at the old stories long in the early hours in the morning but a lot of times they cried as they said everything they wanted to say to each other before she died. Other times they just hugged each and cried in silence or they stood at the foot of the kids beds and watched their babies sleep peacefully.  

No matter how Ronan tried to persuade her otherwise she insisted she wanted to die in a hospice. She told him she got a second chance in life to live every day as her last and have a ball and for the most part she was very positive. She had good days and bad days but most days she remained positive. Ronan had no choice he had to watch her die. He knew he needed to find in himself an inner strength for her and the kids and he rose to the challenge.

Emma her sister helped Katie record her memoirs as her health deteriorated. As Katie spoke Emma wrote and typed it up on the family typewriter. It became the focus of Katies live and helped herself and her sister accept the upcoming death. She wrote and wrote and recorded in her memoirs the things that got her through the day by keeping herself busy. She prayed to Grace a lot for strength and she got it. She began a DVD and began writing a very detailed manual to accompany it: for childrearing and a routine for running the house. She listed in her manual daily menus, past sicknesses the kids had, allergies, favorite toys, helpful contacts to call in crises.

She wrote a letter saying goodbye to her kids and husband and added an appendix listing prayers and hymns and detailed funeral instructions. She hid this from Emma. She organized her funeral by firstly visiting the local undertaker Tom Coffey again with Emma to finalize and pay for his services and she picked a mid priced warm pine coffin. Her wreath from the family was to be white flowers only depicting the word mum. She asked for the public to send donations to The Cancer Society and not to waste money on flowers. It was a surreally happy meeting of the Bowen women. She polished her mum’s headstone. She visited the local priest and leaves a goodbye letter for her family to be read on her death mass. This was Katie’s letter :                                  

Dear Ronan,

                   The doctors have told me I have inoperable breast cancer and it is too advanced and I am dying. It is difficult to say goodbye to the people that matter most in your life but I must say thanks for all the journey we shared together, the good and bad times. Thank-you for our three children Sophie, Sean and Seamus, they are the most priceless gift a man can give a wife. If I am truthful I enjoyed the fights and the making up in the end. You always caved in first but it was your kindness and sincerity that attracted me to you and kept me loving you.

I made the decision to go into a hospice and die to save yourself and the kids any more suffering than necessary. They can give me pain relief and support you and the kids afterwards. I have organised my funeral and will, everything is booked. Everything is selected the priest, the readings, the hymns, the coffin, the grave plot, the headstone. I used this diagnosis as a second chance in life and lived everyday as my last and enjoyed every minute of it. I got to say goodbye to my loved ones and organise my death and help organise your lives after my death. Thank-you for allowing me to exercise my free will and I know I will you always leave me get my own way. I have left an electronic manual on DVD on housekeeping and child rearing as a survival guide for you. It has detailed electronic notes and indexes and video footage. The DVD can be printed and used as a reference guide.

Please do not weep but remember the happy times and mind our kids. If it is possible I will find away to come back to earth to watch over you and a way to communicate I am safe and happy. I go to the next phase of life to be united with mum and my grandparents. As a Catholic I will be happy to be reunited with my Creator. I will watch over you all from heaven and keep a place for you all there. Please do not mourn my death but celebrate my life and what we had together. Through rich and poor days there was a bond that nobody could break.

Remember me as the girl who married you, the woman who had your babies, who kept your house, weeded your garden, your soulmate and best friend. I was the woman who could make you laugh and cry. I could calm you when you were upset but yet infuriate you also like no other. For the passion and the love we shared, I thank-you.  I could read your mind and finish your sentences. I knew everything you loved and hated and we had no secrets from one another. I knew what to say when you were upset to make things alright again. I felt your pain and I shared your joy. I embraced your strengths and celebrated your differences. I love you and everything about you and the physical limitations of worlds will not change that. 

Please love my babies and honour our sacred pact to rear and be there for our children always and please look out for Emma and Dad as I love you all. I will look over you all from heaven and be at your side always. Be strong for our kids. This is not goodbye but fare well until we meet again in the next live.

Always and Forever Your Soul Mate,

Katie

She left scribbled notes by her bedside listing a list of duties for the funeral undertakers. Her final visit was to the family solicitor Richard Dennehy, he recorded her will. She deposited the manual on DVD format to the family solicitor. She arranged for a hospice nurse Mary call to her home  to administer morphine injections.  

Katie had a lot to do she was dying. She must prepare her kids and husband Ronan for her pending death. She was dignified and bore her prognosis with courage. She was the strong one in the marriage and Katie always looked out for Ronan. After months she began to get weaker and needed to attend the hospital more frequently for blood transfusions and she spent periods in the hospice to stabilize her health and then she would go home again. She would get sick get a bit better but as the twelve months came to a close soon the daily morphine injections was not strong enough. Her home nurse told her the time had come to enter the hospice full time as she needed stronger medicine through an iv which was available only in the hospice. She told her she would have no pain and the doctors and nurses would help the family after she passed away. By now she was bedridden she could not read or eat or watch television. She had no quality of life. She had bed sores and was in constant pain. She had difficulty in keeping fluids down and swallowing. She was ready to die.

She booked her bed and asked Mary to go ahead to the hospice while she said goodbye to her family and kids. Mary arranged to send an ambulance to bring her to the hospice later that evening. Ronan was called home from work and she said goodbye to him alone. She begged him not to mourn her death but celebrate the life they had together and honor their secret pact to rear their kids. She then sent him for  Emma  and her father Adam. They all sobbed privately and said goodbye to her and left as the kids Seamus, Sean and Sophie came in for school to allow them some private time with their mum. She asked the kids to sit on the bed and told them she had to go to Heaven to be an angel for God but she would be a star in the sky twinkling at them always. She told them she would never forget them and watch over them from Heaven and protect them from danger. They sobbed bitter tears begging her not to die. Ronan called aunt Emma to mind them as he travelled in the ambulance to the hospice with her. The kids were screaming crying trying to hold on to her bed jacket asking her to stay telling her they needed their mum. They begged her to ask God to seek another angel. Mum was always at home minding them she had a job on earth. She was their angel on earth minding them. She put on a brave face for the kids and waved goodbye to them.  

She could not walk and was as weak as water. She pretended to the kids she was excited she was going on a divine adventure to meet nana Grace and God. She had to be brought out in a stretcher and she was drifting in and out of consciousness. Aunt Emma and the children waved goodbye. From the ambulance she could see the kids screaming and crying running after the ambulance screaming “mum come back. Well be good. Please ask God to leave you with us. We love you more than anything.” Emma brought them into the house. It hurt Katie to see what this terrible cancer did to her family. Her kids and husband were suffering as much as her. In the ambulance she cried as she left her family, her homestead and her dream home, her life never to return again. The curtains were coming down and death was around the corner. Ronan held her hand and told her he loved her again and again. She held his hand and smiled at him. She knew he was telling the truth. She warned him not to cry, she wanted no tears. She had accepted God’s will and he needed to be strong for the kids.   

In hospital she was shown to her own room in the hospice. The doctors  put on pure morphine and a drip to keep her alive. They warned Ronan she could die any time soon. She remained very ill drifting in and out of consciousness for three weeks until she went to sleep and didn’t wake up. It was agony for the kids and Ronan praying by her bed every day and when she died it was a relief. Her suffering had ended. Emma and Ronan were by her side when she passed away at 4 am in the morning. She had flat lined and the alarms sounded. Suddenly she lifted her body and smiled and said “Goodbye my friends. It is time to leave you.  I see a tunnel of light a warm channel of attractive light calling me. I see Grace in the distant floating with her arms opening saying it is my time to pass on. ” With that she closed her eyes and never reopened them. The room was dark and silent and one could hear a pin drop. Suddenly a bright yellow thunderbolt of light left Katie’s body and drifted up towards the sky. Her soul and spirit had departed earth. There was totally shock in the room. Ronan however, cried and cried until he had no more tears left. A doctor came and gave him a sedative.  The kids came late with Adam and Emma were grateful they didn’t witness their mum’s passing.

                                                THE END

In French

Abrégé : Katie a découvert qu’elle a eu le cancer inopérable et elle mourait. Elle l’a regardé comme deuxième chance et a apprécié la vie jusqu’à l’extrémité. Elle a organisé son propre enterrement et a aidé sa famille à faire face à son diagnostic. (Histoire en deux parties)

Au revoir

Le destin avait consacré que le chemin de l’amour n’était pas de courir sans à-coup. Katie a gardé un secret terrible de son mari Ronan mais peuvent-ils survivre ceci ? Elle a seulement voulu le protéger mais elle a eu besoin de lui plus que toujours maintenant. Elle a marché les planchers la nuit avec la douleur dans son coffre et puis soudainement en versant elle a repèré un grand morceau sous son bras et se prolonger à travers son sein. Elle a craint le plus mauvais et ne pourrait pas faire face à lui qu’elle est entré dans le démenti. Elle lui a été terrifiée était cancer ; sa maman était morte de lui. Elle a pleuré elle-même pour dormir la nuit terrifié qu’elle perdrait sa vie rêveuse avec son mari et enfants parfaits dans sa maison rêveuse, celui était une perspective terrifiante. La douleur est devenue graduellement de plus en plus intense.

Une croûte orange de peau a lentement répandu partout son sein gauche et la forme de son sein changé et de elle est devenue offre. Alors elle a noté un petit morceau sur l’autre sein avec la mêmes défiguration et douleur. Elle a marché autour seule de la maison par un jour où Ronan a fonctionné et les enfants étaient à l’école avec une bouteille d’eau chaude vers le haut contre son coffre. Vers l’intérieur, elle était malade avec le souci mais l’extérieur qu’elle a feint tout était très bien. Elle combattait littéralement pour se tenir dessus sur la vie. Elle est devenue plus faible pendant que les jours passaient. Ronan l’a continuée demander que si elle perdait le poids et pas bien, elle l’a simulé était seulement un virus. Il y avait quelque chose mal avec elle mais il ne pourrait pas mettre son doigt là-dessus . Il a vu la douleur et l’inquiétude dans elle des yeux. Elle a semblé fatiguée et mortel pâlissez. Il a craint qu’elle ait eu une affaire et ait été enceinte par un vieux ami ex Alex. Il le sonnait soudainement un couple des périodes par semaine et il lui avait envoyé un couple des bouquets des fleurs. Quand il a découvert la vérité il a été torturé avec la culpabilité. Katie psychique a su ses craintes mais l’a aimé trop pour le confronter. Elle a eu dans une manière trahie sa confiance se fiant à un ami ex.

            Katie pourrait se fier à Alex pendant qu’il était en dehors de la famille mais il y avait un rapport de confiance là. Ils se sont souvent indiqués des secrets et ont échangé des appels de téléphone et des cartes d’anniversaire de Noël et. Il a recherché ses ouvrages de référence dans sa bibliothèque à la maison et lui a dit que cela a ressemblé à du cancer et l’a priée d’obtenir l’aide médicale immédiate. Alex. a également fait la recherche sur des hospices et même sur le suicide aidé en Hollande pour elle à sa demande et requise l’information qu’elle a eue besoin. Il ne l’a pas pressurisée pour prendre une décision dedans si commettre le suicide ou entrer dans un hospice. Il a accepté de l’apporter en Hollande si elle voulait qu’une injection mortelle mourît si elle choisit d’empêcher être un fardeau sur sa famille et de mourir avec la dignité. Il a su qu’elle a eu la grandes force et fierté comme lui-même et celle était ce qui l’avait attiré à elle. Il s’est senti que qui était amour dur et il a été disposé à faire cela pour elle. Il a pleuré quand il était seul il a eu l’a toujours aimée. Il a arrangé pour être son meilleur ami à la place. Même sur son lit de mort il s’est senti il ne pourrait pas lui dire qu’il l’a aimée. Katie a su et il a indiqué que beaucoup elle s’est tournée vers lui quand elle était dans la plupart de besoin quand elle ne pourrait pas se fier à son mari. Il a maintenu une image dans son coffre-fort de se et de Katie dansant ensemble quand ils dataient dans l’hôtel de manoir de Tralee. Il l’a embrassé journalier, bien que maintenant un homme heureusement marié. Il l’a regrettée était celui qui a obtenu loin de lui.

Un mois plus tard Emma aidé par Katie sa soeur organisent une masse d’anniversaire au commerate l’anniversaire de la mort de leur maman neuvième. Elle s’est maintenue occupé au travail pour éviter de se concentrer sur sa santé. Pendant le Katie de masse senti un boulon dur soudain de douleur et effondré. Elle avait prié à sa maman pour l’aider, ses enfants étaient ainsi des jeunes qu’ils ne pourraient pas survivre sans maman et Ronan pauvre a dépendu de elle pour tout. Elle s’est évanouie avec la douleur et était sans connaissance pendant quelques minutes. Emma sa soeur l’a apportée autour de mais elle a eu pas l’énergie à lever. Elle a su qu’elle avait des ennuis, il était comme si la grace lui a donné l’aide qu’elle l’a priée pour dans ses prières. C’était un dégagement pour ne pas cacher sa douleur insupportable, son secret était dehors. Elle a demandé Ronan pour appeler une ambulance par un chuchotement dans son oreille. Elle a eu le cadeau de l’acceptation de sa maman qu’elle était très Illinois. Ses jambes ne la porteraient pas, elle n’ont pas pu soutenir son propre poids.

Ronan l’a calmée que tout serait bien. Elle a été portée en ambulance avec Ronan à la salle d’accidents et de secours de l’hôpital local. Il a tenu sa main étroitement et a embrassé son front lui parlant heureusement. Elle a été examinée par un certain nombre de médecins et là mise dans une salle privée dans la salle de secours. Alors un chirurgien aîné en service dans HEU professeur O’ Callaghan s’est appelé et il a commandé le sien pensent le réservoir pour faire immédiatement une série d’essais. Il a examiné ses seins et elle a crié en douleur mais il ne commettrait à aucun diagnostic. Il était solennel et seulement des questions médicales posées et pouvait décrire sa douleur et tendresse exactement. Il a envoyé l’équipe dans l’action rapide. Il lui a obtenu un lit sur une salle en haut mais d’abord il lui a donné une injection qui lui a donné le soulagement de douleur. Elle sighed avec le soulagement qu’elle avait été dans l’agonie pendant des semaines. Elle a eu beaucoup d’analyses de sang et a été puis envoyée pour une série de rayons X. Elle était en haut et en bas au service “radiologie” toute la nuit. Cela n’a pas étonné elle qu’elle a été placée dans la salle de cancer. Ronan s’est assuré qu’elle a été arrangée avant Ronan a pris un taxi à la maison à 2 AM. Elle est restée dans l’hôpital pendant quelques jours mais pas avant que son diagnostic de cancer du sein a été confirmé.

Elle n’a pas été étonnée par les résultats, elle a su qu’ils car la grace sa maman était apparue à elle comme fantôme dans l’hôpital et tenu au pied de son lit et dit lui l’avait un cancer du sein mortel et elle avait un endroit dans le ciel pour elle, sa douleur finiraient bientôt. La grace a indiqué à elle le Bowen que la famille avait toujours eu le cadeau psychique à parler à l’autre côté. Elle a promis qu’ elle ne souffrirait plus de douleur qu’elle obtiendrait la morphine pure jusqu’à l’extrémité. Elle a dit lui que des infirmières et les équipements d’hospice et à ces Alex et Emma soyez une roche d’aide à elle en ses jours finals. La grace l’a rappelée qu’elle a eu une bonne vie où les enfants n’ont jamais eu n’importe quel accident sérieux ou les maladies et personne ne sont mortes prématurément dans leur famille à moins qu’elle et elle aient accepté d’aller. Quand elle a été dessinée à la lumière elle a suivi l’ange volontairement. Cette nuit Katie a été donnée une transfusion sanguine de secours. Katie a tenu sa langue quand le docteur a demandé à la rencontrer avec Ronan le jour suivant pour lui donner les résultats. Elle a tenu la main de Ronan pour le soutenir comme le docteur l’a dite a eu l’étape : cancer 4. Elle a serré sa main doucement et il ne pourrait pas arrêter les larmes coulent en bas de son visage. Son et seulement amour mouraient. Sa vie a été mise sur l’arrêt soudain et il ne serait jamais heureux encore pas sans son épouse et mère de ses enfants. Il était coeur brisé. Katie s’est levé du lit et était maintenant plus fort après la transfusion sanguine et étreint lui. Les essais l’ont indiquée ont eu le cancer inopérable. La chirurgie n’était aucune utilisation ni était la chimiothérapie ou la radiographie. Elle a eu douze mois à vivre peut-être moins.

Katie s’est réservé hors de l’hôpital de Tralee quelques jours plus tard car elle a eu un enterrement à organiser et le reste de sa vie à vivre. Elle a sonné Alex sur son téléphone portable et lui a dit  dans une question de manière de fait que son diagnostic de cancer du sein de l’étape 4 a été confirmée. Elle mourait. Il a promis d’aider sa n’importe quelle manière qu’il pourrait et a mis en gage n’importe quel argent elle a eu besoin. Elle lui a demandée d’entrer en contact avec l’hospice et de la réserver un lit. Elle n’allait pas gaspiller une minute de la vie, son temps à gauche sur terre était précieuse. Une fois qu’à la maison elle entrait en contact avec l’hospice et organisait une infirmière pour visiter sa maison et pour administrer la morphine. Alex s’est chargé pour un deuxième conseiller dans le liège dans une clinique privée d’obtenir une deuxième opinion. Il a confirmé l’inévitable et montré le cancer écartez-partout la par des rayons X, ombres étaient partout. Là aucun niait il, il juste a dû être accepté par tous, même Ronan choqué par coquille. Ronan était dans les morceaux mais Katie était de nouveau le fort et consolé lui. Ils se sont promis l’année la plus heureuse et la plus mémorable de leurs vies.

Partie deux

Katie a commencé organiser son propre enterrement et écrire un DVD de survie pour Ronan et les enfants. Alex a volé à la maison de sa villa en France en Irlande à la parole au revoir à elle quand elle était encore bonne. Ce serait la dernière fois où ils le rencontreraient ont voulu se rappeler l’en tant que son vieil individu pas une personne malade mourir dans l’hôpital. Il n’a pas voulu voir sa matrice, il ne pourrait pas traiter cette douleur. Il l’a conduite à l’hospice pour réserver son lit et l’a poussée dans un fauteuil roulant et lui a donné une excursion guidée de elle. Ils ont rencontré le personnel et ont parlé à certains des patients. Elle a voulu protéger Ronan contre cela qu’ il n’aurait pas pu pour lui. Alex l’a conduite aux entrepreneurs funèbres et aux avocats-conseils. Il était sa roche. Il est parti après deux semaines et au revoir était vraiment au revoir. Il l’a picotée au revoir sur la joue et dit lui le se reculerait et la laisser ayez les mois à venir avec sa famille. Il a promis de la sonner régulièrement et d’assister à son enterrement. Ils tous les deux pleurés comme il a éliminé. C’était la fin d’une amitié très spéciale.

Au monde Katie avait fait face brillamment aux nouvelles. Cependant, dans l’obscurité de nuit de Katie de snuck des escaliers vers le bas pour le café et pleurés à la perspective à laisser son mari aimé et les enfants elle ne verrait pas pour grandir. Tandis qu’elle sobbed en bas Ronan sobbed silencieusement dans le lit. Elle a employé ont son cri et se lavent le visage et puis font deux tasses des cafés et apportent un jusqu’à Ronan. Elle d’ici là s’est composée et il a été étonné qu’elle a toujours su quand il était éveillé et bouleversé. Il a manqué sa chaleur de corps du lit et s’est réveillé automatiquement quand elle l’a laissé. Ils emploient se reposent vers le haut et causent dans les heures tôt du matin. Elle a nommé Ronan comme son soignant quand elle était ainsi défectuosité qu’elle pourrait ne faire rien pour elle-même. Elle l’a forcé à faire face à la sa mort et rai franchement à lui au sujet de lui et de ses choix. Il a permis à son utilisation sa volonté libre d’organiser des choses pour quand elle était ainsi la défectuosité qu’elle ne pourrait pas s’aider. Elle lui a dit qu’elle s’était réservée dans un hospice pour l’extrémité quand elle était près de la mort. Parfois ils ont ri des vieilles histoires longtemps dans les heures tôt le matin mais un sort de périodes ils ont pleuré comme ils ont dit que tout qu’ils ont voulu dire à chaque autre avant qu’elle soit morte. D’autres fois ils ont juste étreint chacun et ont pleuré dans le silence ou ils se sont tenus au pied des lits d’enfants et ont observé leurs bébés dormir paisiblement.  

N’importe comment Ronan a essayé de la persuader autrement elle a exigé qu’elle a voulu mourir dans un hospice. Elle lui a dit qu’elle a obtenu une deuxième chance dans la vie de vivre journalier en tant que son bout et d’avoir une boule et pour la plupart de partie elle était très positive. Elle a eu de bonnes journées et mauvais jours mais la plupart des jours où elle est restés positive. Ronan n’a eu aucun choix qu’il a dû observer sa matrice. Il a su qu’il a dû trouver dans se une force intérieure pour elle et les enfants et lui se sont levés au défi.

Emma sa soeur a aidé le disque de Katie ses mémoires comme sa santé a détérioré. Comme le rai Emma de Katie l’a écrit et a dactylographié vers le haut sur la machine à écrire de famille. C’est devenu le centre de Katies de phase et s’est aidé et sa soeur à accepter la mort prochaine. Elle a écrit et a écrit et a enregistré dans ses mémoires les choses qui l’ont obtenue par le jour en se maintenant occupé. Elle a prié pour honorer beaucoup pour la force et elle l’a obtenue. Elle a commencé un DVD et a commencé à écrire un manuel très détaillé pour l’accompagner : pour childrearing et une routine pour courir la maison. Elle a énuméré dans ses menus quotidiens de manuel, après des maladies que les enfants ont eu, allergies, jouets préférés, contacts utiles pour appeler dans les crises.

Elle a écrit une lettre disant au revoir à ses enfants et mari et a ajouté des prières et des hymnes d’une liste d’annexe et a détaillé des instructions funèbres. Elle a caché ceci d’Emma. Elle a organisé son enterrement en rendant visite premièrement à l’entrepreneur local Tom Coffey encore avec Emma pour mener à bonne fin et payer ses services et elle a sélectionné un mi cercueil chaud eu le prix indiqué de pin. Sa guirlande de la famille était d’être les fleurs blanches dépeignant seulement la maman de mot. Elle a demandé le public pour envoyer des donations à la société de Cancer et pour ne pas gaspiller l’argent sur des fleurs. C’était une réunion surreally heureuse des femmes de Bowen. Elle a poli la pierre tombale de sa maman. Elle a rendu visite au prêtre local et laisse au revoir une lettre pour que sa famille soit lue sur sa masse de la mort. C’était la lettre de Katie :                                  

Cher Ronan,

                   Les médecins m’ont dit que j’ai le cancer de sein inopérable et il est trop avancé et je meurs. Il est difficile de dire au revoir au peuple qui importent plus dans votre vie mais je dois dire des mercis de tout voyage que nous avons partagé ensemble, des bons et mauvais temps. Merci pour nos trois enfants Sophie, Sean et Seamus, ils sont le cadeau le plus inestimable qu’un homme peut donner une épouse. Si je suis véridique j’ai apprécié les combats et composer à la fin . Vous avez toujours foudroyé dans d’abord mais c’était votre bonté et sincérité qui m’ont attiré à toi et maintenu me vous aimant.

J’ai pris la décision pour entrer dans un hospice et pour mourir pour se sauver et les enfants souffrant plus que nécessaires. Ils peuvent me donner le soulagement de douleur et soutenir toi et les enfants après. J’ai organisé mon enterrement et la volonté, tout est réservée. Tout est choisi le prêtre, les lectures, les hymnes, le cercueil, la parcelle de terrain grave, la pierre tombale. J’ai employé ce diagnostic comme deuxième chance dans la vie et ai vécu journalier en tant que mon bout et ai apprécié chaque minute de lui. J’ai obtenu de dire qu’au revoir au mon a aimé ceux et organise ma mort et aide à organiser vos vies après ma mort. Merci pour me permettre d’exercer ma volonté et moi libres sachez que je volonté vous me laisse toujours obtiens ma propre manière. J’ai laissé un manuel électronique sur DVD sur le ménage et l’enfant s’élevant comme guide de survie pour toi. Il a détaillé la longueur électronique de notes et d’index et visuelle. Le DVD peut être imprimé et employé comme guide de référence.

Ne pleurez pas mais rappelez-vous les temps heureux et veuillez s’occupez de nos enfants. S’il est possible je trouverai loin pour revenir à la terre à la montre plus de vous et une manière de me communiquer suis sûr et heureux. Je vais à la phase suivante de la vie à unir à la maman et à mes grand-pères. Car un catholique je sera heureux d’être réuni à mon créateur. J’observerai au-dessus de toi tout du ciel et garderai un endroit pour toi tout là. Veuillez ne pas pleurer ma mort mais célébrez ma vie et ce que nous avons eu ensemble. Par des jours riches et pauvres il y avait un lien que personne ne pourrait casser.

Rappelez-vous moi en tant que fille qui vous a épousé , la femme qui a eu vos bébés, qui ont gardé votre maison, a sarclé votre jardin, votre soulmate et meilleur ami. J’étais la femme qui pourrait te faire le rire et le cri. Je pourrais vous calmer quand vous avez été dérangé mais pourtant vous fâcher également comme aucun autre. Pour la passion et l’amour nous avons partagé, I merci.  Je pourrais lire votre esprit et finir vos phrases. J’ai su que tout que vous avez aimé et ai détesté et nous n’avons eu aucun secret les uns des autres. J’ai su quoi dire quand vous avez été dérangé pour faire des choses bien encore. Je me suis senti que votre douleur et moi ai partagé votre joie. J’ai embrassé vos forces et ai célébré vos différences. Je t’aime et tout au sujet de toi et les limitations physiques des mondes ne changera pas cela. 

Veuillez aimer mes bébés et honorez notre pacte sacré pour s’élever et être là pour nos enfants toujours et pour regarder svp dehors pour Emma et papa en tant que je t’aime tous. Je regarderai au-dessus de toi tout du ciel et serai à votre côté toujours. Soyez fort pour nos enfants. Ce n’est pas au revoir mais le puits de prix jusqu’à ce que nous nous réunissions encore dans le prochain vivent.

Toujours et pour toujours votre compagnon d’âme,

Katie

Elle est partie scribbled des notes par son chevet énumérant une liste de fonctions pour les entrepreneurs funèbres. Sa visite finale était à l’avocat-conseil Richard Dennehy de famille, il l’a enregistrée. Elle a déposé le manuel sur le format de DVD à l’avocat-conseil de famille. Elle a arrangé pour un appel de Mary d’infirmière d’hospice à sa maison  pour administrer des injections de morphine.  

Katie a eu beaucoup pour la faire mourait. Elle doit préparer ses enfants et mari Ronan pour sa mort en suspens. Elle a été finie et alèse son pronostic avec le courage. Elle était la forte dans le mariage et Katie toujours a regardé dehors pour Ronan. Après des mois elle a commencé à devenir plus faible et nécessaire pour s’occuper de l’hôpital plus fréquemment pour les transfusions sanguines et elle a passé des périodes dans l’hospice pour stabiliser sa santé et alors elle irait à la maison encore. Elle tomberait malade obtiennent un peu meilleur mais pendant que les douze mois venaient à une fin bientôt les injections quotidiennes de morphine n’étaient pas assez forte. Son infirmière à la maison lui a dit que le temps était venu pour entrer dans l’hospice en tant qu’elle a eu besoin à plein temps de médecine plus forte par un iv ce qui était disponible seulement dans l’hospice. Elle lui a dit qu’ elle n’aurait aucune douleur et les médecins et les infirmières aideraient la famille après qu’ elle ait passé loin. À ce jour elle était bedridden elle ne pourrait pas lire ou manger ou regarder la télévision. Elle n’a eu aucune qualité de la vie. Elle a eu des blessures de lit et était dans la douleur constante. Elle a eu la difficulté en réduisant des fluides et l’ingestion. Elle était prête à mourir.

Elle a réservé son lit et a demandé à Mary d’aller en avant à l’hospice tandis qu’elle disait au revoir à sa famille et enfants. Mary s’est chargée d’envoyer une ambulance pour l’apporter à l’hospice plus tard qui soirée. Ronan s’est appelé la maison du travail et elle seul a dit au revoir à lui. Elle l’a prié de ne pas pleurer sa mort mais de célébrer la vie où ils ont eue ensemble et d’honorer leur pacte secret pour élever leurs enfants. Elle l’a alors envoyé pour  Emma  et son père Adam. Ils tous sobbed en privé et ont dit qu’au revoir à elle et à gauche en tant qu’enfants Seamus, Sean et Sophie sont entrés pour que l’école leur accorde une certaine heure privée avec leur maman. Elle a demandé aux enfants de s’asseoir sur le lit et dit leur l’a dû aller au ciel pour être un ange pour Dieu mais elle serait un tenir le premier rôle dans le scintillement de ciel à eux toujours. Elle leur a dit qu’elle n’oublierait jamais eux et la montre au-dessus de eux du ciel et les protégerait contre le danger. Ils sobbed les larmes amères la priant de ne pas mourir. Ronan a appelé tante Emma pour s’occuper de eux pendant qu’il voyageait dans l’ambulance à l’hospice avec elle. Les enfants criaient l’essai pleurant de se tenir dessus sur sa veste de lit lui demandant que rester les lui disant a eu besoin de leur maman. Ils l’ont priée de demander à Dieu de chercher un autre ange. La maman toujours à la maison s’occupait de eux qu’elle a eu un travail sur terre. Elle était leur ange sur terre s’occupant de eux. Elle a mis dessus un visage de braver pour les enfants et a ondulé au revoir à eux.  

Elle ne pourrait pas marcher et était aussi faible que l’eau. Elle a feint aux enfants qu’elle a été excitée qu’elle allait sur une aventure divine rencontrer la grace et le Dieu de nana. Elle a dû être apportée dehors dans une civière et elle dérivait dans et hors de la conscience. Tante Emma et les enfants ondulés au revoir. De l’ambulance elle pourrait voir les enfants courir crier et pleurer après que maman criarde d’ambulance la « reviennent. Le puits soit bon. Veuillez demander à Dieu de vous laisser avec nous. Nous vous aimons davantage que n’importe quoi. » Emma les a introduits dans la maison. Il a blessé Katie pour voir ce que ce cancer terrible a fait à sa famille. Ses enfants et mari souffraient autant qu’elle. Dans l’ambulance elle n’a à gauche pleuré en tant qu’elle sa famille, sa ferme et sa maison rêveuse, sa vie jamais pour retourner encore. Les rideaux descendaient et la mort était autour du coin. Ronan a tenu sa main et dit lui le l’a aimée à plusieurs reprises. Elle a tenu sa main et a souri à lui. Elle l’a connu disait la vérité. Elle l’a averti de ne pas pleurer, elle n’a voulu aucune larme. Elle avait accepté la volonté de Dieu et il a dû être fort pour les enfants.   

Dans l’hôpital elle a été montrée à sa propre pièce dans l’hospice. Les médecins  mettez dessus la morphine pure et un égouttement pour la maintenir vivante. Ils ont averti Ronan qu’elle pourrait mourir n’importe quand bientôt. Elle est restée dériver très malade dans et hors de la conscience pendant trois semaines jusqu’à ce qu’elle soit allée dormir et ne s’est pas réveillée vers le haut. C’était agonie pour les enfants et Ronan priant par son lit journalier et quand elle est morte c’était un soulagement. Sa douleur avait fini. Emma et Ronan étaient par son côté quand elle a passé loin à 4 avoir lieu le matin. Elle a fait rayer l’appartement et les alarmes ont retenti. Soudainement elle a soulevé son corps et a souri et a dit « au revoir mes amis. Il est temps de vous laisser.  Je vois un tunnel de lumière un canal chaud de lumière attrayante m’appeler. Je vois que la grace dans flotter éloigné avec ses bras s’ouvrant le disant est mon heure de passer dessus.  » Avec celle elle l’a fermée des yeux et ne les a jamais rouverts. La salle était foncée et silencieux et un pourrait entendre une goupille baisse. Soudainement un coup de foudre jaune lumineux du corps de Katie gauche léger et dérivé vers le haut vers le ciel. Son âme et esprit ont eu la terre partie. Il y avait totalement choc dans la chambre. Ronan cependant, pleuré et pleuré jusqu’à ce qu’il n’ait eu plus plus de larmes. Un docteur est venu lui donner un sédatif.  Les enfants sont venus tard avec Adam et Emma étaient reconnaissant ils n’était pas témoin du dépassement de leur maman.

                                                L’EXTRÉMITÉ

 

 

 

Paradise story from my novel Honey Trap

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Abstract: Three divorcees abandon conventional life and addiction after a spell in rehab and establish a new life, a business and Paradise island. It becomes a great success and they live happy after.

Title: Paradise

The girls moved out of the family homes and packed every thing, with the help of a professional packing company, Get Going, on a privately chartered ferry to Paradise Island. Ava, Felicity and Angelina had survived three bad marriages and divorces and serious personal issues that had almost destroyed their kids lives and their own. This was their second chance to rebuild their families and they could not fail. As single parents from rehab they would be judged more harshly.

The Three Wise Women noted that life was for living and on Paradise as single parents they lived it to the full free of their ex-husbands control and deceit. They would not make that mistake in a hurry again. The girls were proud of their new company 3WW meaning three wise women or world war three and of overcoming past addictions. Felicity recorded that the three life graduates were proving very savvy business women. The 3WW firm unlike other corporations had its HQ in Dublin and a subsidiary office in Paradise. They had established this firm together as survivors of divorce. The island was governed by the Town Council. It debated public matters in the open town centre and the public got an opportunity to vote and offer their opinions. The Paradisers judged each person as an individual on their own merits. Interestingly, The Three Wise Women allowed the three ex husbands to be the three senior executives of 3WW in Ireland. The roles were reversed the men now answered to them.  3WW’s mission statement was to provide excellent customer service and products, produced in a fair trade manner. The girls got with the business of living life ever after divorce. They concentrated on fine tuning their homes, families and island.  On the island it was a second chance to rebuild harmony and common decency values that had long since disappeared all over the world. Everybody got a say in the running of the state and in all laws. Crime was low, justice was fair and educational and medical services were excellent. The Paradisers were clever kind hearted people, a pleasure to live and to work with. Gone were the days of the rat race and keeping up with the Jones. Everybody worked for the good of the island and delivered by the best standards at a competitive price.

The girls were busy rebuilding their lives, their homes, spirituality and finding their inner child and self under all of life’s baggage. Who am I? What am I? What do I want? What do I need? When do I need it and how? Questions and more questions arose as did lots of decisions but it forced them to revisit issues and rethink things and justify decisions. It was a time for deep analysis and growth. It was not a lonely journey they had to travel; all three of them were on the same path.

            The island’s geography was reshaped into the shape of a mother and child. The mother was the main area for residence and government but the child island was reserved solely for the medical center and cremation and graveyard, life and death. A place where life began and was saved to eventually ended. It had luxurious gardens and had many public parks, places of quiet contemplation, to be one with nature and your own thoughts. The mother island was the shape of a woman sleeping in the sea of nature and with nature. Nobody owned paradise, it was owned by all its citizens. The island began with a circular section like a head, which was the brain of an island. In this section all legal, administration, education, business and government affairs and offices were centralized here. Next, there was the rectangular chest area of land, where the villas and bungalows and on the outskirts of the land was the fishing and farming areas. The heart of the land was where the residential area was located. The next patch of the land was the spine, hips and legs and here the backbone of trade, commerce and shipping took place. The docklands were situated here. In the docklands were warehouses and two storey city businesses and apartments for city living, hotels and shops and boutiques and artisan cottages around the fringes verging towards the country areas. Along her legs were the docking areas and shipping marines were built near nearer inland by the coast.

There were no skyscrapers as these were prohibited by planning law. All buildings had to be painted in white and blue and no other colors were allowed by law. No two houses overlooked each other so everybody had total privacy. Everybody’s home was their castle and their private space and this was protected by planning laws. Geographically the island had dramatic coastline of secret coves and forests. It was surrounded by water of turquoise color and reef. It had rich, fertile lands and a very hot temperature all year round. All year the temperature averaged 105 degrees. It got a bit cooler at night but people could still sleep under the stars and sky. It had very little rainfall and no snow or frost. Temperatures dropped a little in the winter. It had pale golden sands and clear cloudless blue skies. Rich quantities of palm trees and exotic flowers in dramatic red and fuchsia pink and bright yellow colors enhanced the islands beauty. The gardens were decorated with white Balinese furniture and the Japanese rock gardens with mythical dragons, lions, dinosaurs, elephants, nymphs, and man beasts (half men and half beast) in concrete large statutes and red bridges over goldfish ponds. A large loch housed swans and pink flamingos. Around it was a lawn with picnic benches and a series of themed small gardens.

The planting of the main garden were large jungle like plants and large coconut, apple, plum and banana trees. To relax people sunbathed sipping cocktails or sleep on a hammock under the cool trees. The sea was filled with killer sharks but a large underwater blue wire wall locked the sharks out of the beach to keep the Paradiser’s safe. Turtles and tropical fish in electric blues, yellows and red swam in open sea and large shells lay on the sea bed, which housed great perils. The domestic animals were the dogs and cats and King Charles dogs were the most common pet. Monkeys swung from trees everywhere. Horses, camels and elephants were not uncommon as a form of transport or farm animals. In the highland and farms there were sheep, lama, horses, cows, chicken, geese, deer, peacocks and zebras. There were no dangerous animals roaming Paradise, even the animals in the zoo were sick dying animals rescued by zoologists and Paradise paid for their transportation to Paradise and nursed back to health. The geography and ethos of the island was eccentric to say the least and it was reshaped and redesigned by mostly Scottish engineers from Edinburgh University with the help of Irish architects and engineers. It cost €15 billion to buy and rebuild it but that was a steal. Its mission statement was to provide a clean, spiritual living and citizens could not do anything to harm the state or its citizens. Do onto others as you would like to be treated. It was a unique place with a unique philosophy of living encouraged capitalism but fees were dictated by the state. It prohibited foreign investments and companies. Part of its theories could be traced back to communism with the state giving equal status and enshrined the equality of all citizens. The state’s welfare took precedence over the individuals. Although the chief-magistrate and town council were democratically elected, an oligarchy or few ran the state. The citizens got great spiritual and material benefits from clean and good living. On the highlands there were hot springs and health spas where people holidayed or recovered from illnesses. Around the circumference of the towns and cities were cute little thatched cottage industries. Here one found little factories in people’s homes, all crafts were hand made by traditional skills e.g. the weaver, the knitters, the jewelers, the bakers, the carpenter, the author and the artist. Fees for their services were government dictated, a fair price for a fair product or service. In the middle of the island was a zoo marine and it had three dancing and singing dolphins Tom, Dick and Larry. There were amusements, swings and slides, an opening aired swimming pool and a zoo and a large botanical garden. A state evacuation for fossil fuels found garnets in the mines, a warm brown stone jewel. A state mine was established and fair trade standards were strictly adhered to. All perils, the jewel of the sea and garnets the land’s precious gem found were property of the state.        

The theme of the island was Paradise and the objective a cleaner living in all ways. A laid back and easy life was encouraged in this eco-friendly environment and all efforts were made to save the planet and all live forms. Abortion and euthanasia were against the law. Daily exercise to make the body healthy to compliment a happy mind was strongly urged. Many sports were available to cater for all tastes: cruising, fishing, angling, golf, cricket, jet skiing and tennis. Aqua sports and swimming were the most popular activity. A public racing track surrounded the market place and adults ran around it to stay fit.  

There was an onus placed on the citizens by the state to exercise and eat properly and teach and do the same with their children. People walked, cycled or used white buggies as forms of transport. The island had a dockland, a small airport to house its flight of small aircraft, a helicopter and a yacht marina. Most inhabitants owned an 80 foot yacht. The children cycled every where while teenagers used mopeds. Access to the island was restricted to sea and air and as Paradise was privately owned there were no package holidays, the only visitors were invited guests. The islanders promoted the most moral and best standard of living. Their mantra was excellence in all we do and say.  

Wind turbines and hydro energy created the electricity. This was supplemented by solar energy on all homes and buildings. The residential accommodation were detached villas, cottages and cabins and 2 storey apartments by the docklands, all painted white and blue. The Paradisers strove for a balance between modern luxuries and being ecologically friendly and mostly achieved their objective.

A complex legal system semi-democratic and oligarchy called Citizenship existed. The chief-justice was the head of the state appointed by public election and had to pass a good citizen and legal exam to be eligible for election and he sat in court and issued a legal verdict. His term of office lasted 8 years. Anybody who was over 21 could become the chief-justice. He sat on a bench above the court and was similar to a modern day judge in Europe. Paradise was a self governing island and did not join the European Union. An appeal of any court decision could be made to the Town Council, elected members of the public, who also had to pass the state the citizen and legal exams and be over 21 years of age. All criminal and civil cases were free and paid by the state to ensure equality of justice to all levels of society. A fine was imposed for small crimes. A persistent criminal got a public beating and a final letter of warning of exile on the next offence. If somebody had a letter of final warning they could not serve as a state chief-justice or councilor. An annual report published annually list all criminals and punishments and people were named and shamed and the list was displayed in public offices. All government officials were democratically elected and all citizens had one vote and equal status and were eligible for all state offices even the chief-justice. The government funded the election and the election campaigns of all. There were no political parties

In the market, the communal marketplace was where all commerce and business was based. Around the market were cafes, wine bars and single storey businesses. The main market was semi-circular and open aired with a canopy cover made in the shape of a sail. The floor was decorated with a mosaic floor charting the marine life of the island. There were no foreign private industries in Paradise but individuals did have their own cottage industries. Their fees were set by the state and individuals needed to apply for a state license.  To become a citizen from another state you first had to pass the legal and citizen exams and invest a least £5 million in the state and you had to be interviewed and recommended by two town councilors and the proposal passed by majority vote.  It was not just the money you could contribute but your contribution to society in a vocational or employment capacity and your ability to live in harmony and by the laws with its citizens.

In the social contract people under the age of 21 and in full time education or trade were entitled to children’s allowance money from the state. The children over 16 did jobs for the community to earn this and the amount of hours and your age depended on the amount of money you received. The jobs included doing the shopping or cooking for the elderly, cleaning the public parks, shelving in the local library, gardening in the state parks, public cleaning and maintenance jobs and painting state buildings. Adults too were obliged to contribute 2 hours a week on a voluntary basis to the state’s upkeep. Some people painted or gardened or worked in the hospitals or community work. All citizens were expected to pass on their skill before they departed from the earth and should have at least one understudy during their lifetime. Writers were expected to chronicle current affairs and provide entertainment or knowledge. Librarians preserved information for future generations and aided research and musicians entertained, doctors saved lives etc. Civil servants helped run the state. Everybody added in some way to society and kept a chronicle of their daily duties. Everybody lived in harmony and did their best so everybody got the best of everything and nobody was overburdened. Again the Rights Commissioners did spot checks and investigated complaints on any employee. 

In religion, a sense of spirituality and Christianity prevailed. The island was more spiritual than religious and people lived their beliefs in being compassionate to one another as opposed just preaching it. People engaged in theatre, reading, surfing the web, many outdoor sports and in the arts and crafts. Knitting, weaving, dance and art were common activities among the older citizens.  All homes had digital had HD televisions, DVD players, 5 in 1 cd, radio, vinyl, cassette and mps music systems, radios and computers. Paradise had its own TV channel and radio station and its own computers Lina and operating system Liware written by one of the island founders Angelina.

It was everybody’s dream to kick out and divorce the bad husband and start a new life, give up work and live in Paradise. They learnt they had to snap out of misery, get professional help and make decisions and stand by them and work towards a goal, good health and happiness and addiction free. Nothing worthwhile ever came easy. They lived happily in Paradise.

 

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Rose of Tralee Fiction Book : Always and Forever

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Always and Forever: Katie The Rose of Tralee 

by

Annette Dunlea 

Abstract:

Katie Bowen and Ronan O’Hanlon are love’s young dream. They date and after a bad start fall head over heels in love. On the night she wins the Rose of Tralee festival Ronan goes on bended knee under the moonlight and proposes to her. Her life turns around from this day forward. They have a three day wedding and honeymoon in Geneva and build a beautiful new home on the farm. They soon have a family and live an idyllic life on tragedy strikes. This is a tale of supernatural love.

Genre: Fiction, Supernatural Love

Excerpt:

“She blew a warm breeze on his face and rustled his hair and embraced him in a warm haze and he felt her nonthreatening presence. She looked down and saw his face stained with tears, nobody could reach him in his grief but she could. He saw her and blew her a kiss goodbye. She flew down in a haze in a white dress with wings and whispered into his ear “please don’t cry I am in a better place. Marriage is forever. Love and life is forever. My body died but my soul lives on for eternity”. (Katie)

“The rain stopped suddenly and the grey sky cleared into a bright blue colour and a glowing warm orange sun appeared to show her appreciation. A perfect blue sky remained on the dark winter’s day until after the ceremony and the hailstone and rain commenced again and the dark sky reappeared as the funeral car drove away”. (Katie’s Burial)

Now available from Amazon as a paperback book or by download -
Annette’s book on the life and death of a fictional Rose of Tralee
Historical fiction, Superrnatural love, Romance

ISBN: 9781409272977

Ireland–Fiction

Love Stories

823.92 DUNL

Links:

Discover Ireland: http://www.discoverireland.com/

Tralee Town: http://www.tralee.ie/

Rose of Tralee Festival : http://roseoftralee.ie/catalog/

Release Date for Next Book 31st March 2009

 

The Honey Trap by Annette Dunlea

ISBN: 978-1-4092-7467-4

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Abstract:

Angelina, Ava and Felicity were three women with three very different lives. These beautiful women lived unknown to each other in different parts of Ireland. The three Irish celebrity wives dealt with sex, fame, dirty money, deceit and power. Angelina, a business woman, an IT librarian, Felicity an ex-actress and footballer’s wife and Ava, Ireland’s first supermodel, came together by accident and discovered they shared a secret. All married at one time to rich and powerful men until each in turn discovered a secret that devastated their worlds. Add to this cocktail a managing director, a professional Irish footballer and an entrepreneurial hairdresser to the rich and famous. Add a touch of greed and illicit secret dealings, spiced up with drugs and alcohol.

What happens when love becomes hate? When you discover the best years of your life, whose kids you reared, whose house you kept has deceived you, you’re living a lie. Anger and revenge are the consequences and lives are devastated in the process. Travel the journey as three women discover that their soul mates and their marriages are a fallacy, a lie. It becomes a path of self – healing and self – rescue. Failure is not an option. Can anything be salvaged from this chaos?

Keywords: sex, dirty money, love, rehab, hate, betrayal, revenge, Paradise

Excerpts:

Meet Angelina, an Information Technology librarian, Ava Ireland’s first supermodel and Felicity an ex-actress and wife to James Barrett the most capped footballer with the Irish Team. They had everything: wealth, money, fame and do not know each other until personal tragedies and fate brought them together to form a bond and sisterhood to fight the injustice they were all at the end of. What forces three of the most successful women in Ireland with the perfect lives to take the law into their own hands?

All three women’s lives began humbly and they rose to join the rich and famous and end up in rehab together suffering a common problem. Their perfect world crashed and everything was in jeopardy. They struggled to regain life and keep their families together. Sex, fame, dirty money, drink and drugs and deceit are the main themes. This is the tale of three ordinary women that fate ruins their lives but they find in themselves an inner strength, for their kids’ sake, with their three combined skills and assets to change lady luck.

As planned The Three Wise Women meet at 3WW HQ for debriefing. Angelina extracted the small camera from her lapel and downloaded it onto a laptop. She then expertly digitally scanned the Polaroid into her electronic file on James. Ava had just missed Sean who had given his camcorder and photographs of himself and Patrick to Angelina. It had been digitally downloaded and formatted onto Patrick’s pc file. A back-up of all data was done on the Company server but it was heavily encrypted and written in Angelina’s own program Borrow and used her own software Gotya, so only the very best could break her code and that would take months”.

 

Geographically the island had dramatic coastline of secret coves and forests. It was surrounded by water of turquoise color and reef. It had rich, fertile lands and a very hot temperature all year round. All year the temperature averaged 105 degrees. It got a bit cooler at night but people could still sleep under the stars and sky. It had very little rainfall and no snow or frost. Temperatures dropped a little in the winter”.

 

It had pale golden sands and clear cloudless blue skies. Rich quantities of palm trees and exotic flowers in dramatic red and fuchsia pink and bright yellow colors enhanced the islands beauty. The gardens were decorated with white Balinese furniture and the Japanese rock gardens with mythical dragons, lions, dinosaurs, elephants, nymphs, and man beasts (half men and half beast) in concrete large statutes and red bridges over goldfish ponds. A large loch housed swans and pink flamingos.”

Coming Soon The Honey Trap by Annette Dunlea

Annette’s new book The Honey Trap has a publication date of 31st March 2009. It will be available as a paperback or as a download from Amazon and all good bookstores.

The Honey Trap

By Annette Dunlea

ISBN: 978-1-4092-7467-4

pbk €14.95 download €2.98

Abstract: Angelina, Ava and Felicity were three women with three very different lives. These beautiful women lived unknown to each other in different parts of Ireland. The three Irish celebrity wives dealt with sex, fame, dirty money, deceit and power. Angelina, a business woman, an IT librarian, Felicity an ex-actress and footballer’s wife and Ava, Ireland’s first supermodel, came together by accident and discovered they shared a secret. All married at one time to rich and powerful men until each in turn discovered a secret that devastated their worlds. Add to this cocktail a managing director, a professional Irish footballer and an entrepreneurial hairdresser to the rich and famous. Add a touch of greed and illicit secret dealings, spiced up with drugs and alcohol. What happens when love becomes hate? When you discover the best years of your life, whose kids you reared, whose house you kept has deceived you, you’re living a lie. Anger and revenge are the consequences and lives are devastated in the process. Travel the journey as three women discover that their soul mates and their marriages are a fallacy, a lie. It becomes a path of self – healing and self – rescue. Failure is not an option. Can anything be salvaged from this chaos? Keywords: sex, dirty money, love, rehab, hate, betrayal, revenge, Paradise Excerpts: “Geographically the island had dramatic coastline of secret coves and forests. It was surrounded by water of turquoise color and reef. It had rich, fertile lands and a very hot temperature all year round. All year the temperature averaged 105 degrees. It got a bit cooler at night but people could still sleep under the stars and sky. It had very little rainfall and no snow or frost. Temperatures dropped a little in the winter”. “It had pale golden sands and clear cloudless blue skies. Rich quantities of palm trees and exotic flowers in dramatic red and fuchsia pink and bright yellow colors enhanced the islands beauty. The gardens were decorated with white Balinese furniture and the Japanese rock gardens with mythical dragons, lions, dinosaurs, elephants, nymphs, and man beasts (half men and half beast) in concrete large statutes and red bridges over goldfish ponds. A large loch housed swans and pink flamingos.” “Like Felicity they methodically checked the house office, safe and family bank account details and financial affairs. Angelina then had Inspector Mick bug the boys’ homes, cars and offices and with the information she acquired came knowledge and contacts. She wrote a programme called listen, it saved all conversations digitally and converted it to text into a computer file in a remote location not traceable to her or anybody at 3WW but it recorded all his illicit dealings and it gave her valuable information. She hacked into their individual MIS computer systems and sent spyware via e-mail called virus protection free download and once opened it went through their c drive, all files on their computers, and copied all files to a ip address of a remote computer of Angelina’s request, in a phantom company named Borrow. All data was heavily encrypted and deleted after access and storage was onto an external hard drive storage box, deleting the electronic footpath. The spyware recorded their strokes on the keyboard and Angelina was able to secure even their banking pins and passwords and all their computer passwords. She had a brilliant computer mind, wasted in librarianship”.

Links

Female Fiction: http://www.amazon.com/Favorite-Female-Fiction/lm/UH0Y7I8ZWJRT

Paradise Island: http://www.priorguest.com/en/hotels/bahamas/bahamas-paradise-island/3818/paradise-isl-harbour-rst-superior