title: A Pocket Guide to Purgatory (A Pocket Guide to)
author:  Patrick Madrid 
description: Patrick Madrid is the author of twelve books on Catholic themes <br />including Where is That in the Bible?, Why is That in Tradition, A Pocket Guide to <br />Catholic Apologetics, and he has produced many apologetics DVDs and CDs. He is the <br />host of several EWTN television and radio series, and has conducted hundreds of seminars <br />and conferences in English and Spanish, at parishes and universities across the <br />United States, as well as throughout Europe, and in Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, <br />and New Zealand.
zlib_text: Nine Princes In Amber Chapter 1 It was starting to end, after what seemed most
  of eternity to me. I attempted to wriggle my toes, succeeded. I was sprawled
  there in a hospital bed and my legs were done up in plaster casts, but they
  were still mine. I squeezed my eyes shut, and opened fhem, three times. The
  room grew steady. Where the hell was I? Then the fogs were slowly broken, and
  some of that which is called memory returned to me. I recalled nights and
  nurses and needles. Every time things would begin to clear a bit, someone
  would come in and jab me with something. That's how it had been. Yes. Now,
  though, I was feeling halfway decent. They'd have to stop. Wouldn't they? The
  thought came to assail me: Maybe not. Some natural skepticism as to the purity
  of all human motives came and sat upon my chest. I'd been over narcotized, I
  suddenly knew. No real reason for it, from the way I felt, and no reason for
  them to stop now, if they'd been paid to keep it up. So play it coo'l and stay
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