title: A Woman Unto Herself: A Different Kind of Love Story
author:  Tina M. Benson M.A. 
description: Tina M. Benson, M.A., is an international bestselling author, modern-day Soul Whisperer and transpersonal/Jungian-oriented spiritual teacher and life coach. With a Masters degree in counseling psychology from Lesley College Graduate School, she has more than 30 years experience, both in the United States and abroad, teaching, leading, and facilitating individuals, and couples, as well as large and small groups through consciousness explorations, chakra initiation/meditation retreats, couples and women's retreats, ecstatic dancing, Voice Dialogue, Enneagram, chanting, ritual, and travel to sacred sites around the world. She is the founder and creator of the SoulSpeaks Project, creator of the short documentary film, What Matters Most, and is also a non-denominational ordained minister, officiating at weddings, birth, death, and other life-passages and celebrations. Tina lives and practices in Marin County, California. Visit: www.soulwhisperer.com
zlib_text: Contents
  Cover
  One	True	Love:	A	Story
  Scratch	a	Woman:	A	Story
  Form	95:	An	Original	Story
  An	Excerpt	from	And	When	She	Was	Good
  			Title	Page
  			Monday,	October	3
  			1989
  			Tuesday,	October	4
  			1990
  			Wednesday,	October	5
  			1991
  			Thursday,	October	6
  Also	by	Laura	Lippman
  About	the	Author
  Copyright	Page
  
  One	True	Love:	A	Story
  His	face	didn’t	register	at	first.	Probably	hers	didn’t	either.	It	wasn’t	a	face-
  oriented	business,	strange	to	say.	In	the	early	days,	on	the	streets,	she	had
  made	a	point	of	studying	the	men’s	faces	as	a	means	of	protection.	Not
  because	she	thought	she’d	ever	be	downtown,	picking	someone	out	of	a
  lineup.	Quite	the	opposite.	If	she	wasn’t	careful,	if	she	didn’t	size	them	up
  beforehand,	she’d	be	on	a	gurney	in	the	morgue	and	no	one	would	give	a	shit.
  Certainly	not	Val,	although	he’d	be	pissed	in	principle	at	being	deprived	of
  anything	he	considered	his	property.	And	while	Brad	thought	he	loved	her,
  dead	was	dead.	Who	needed	postmortem	devotion?
  So	she	had	le