title: THE WIND OF MY SAILS: A Diary of Thoughtful Thoughts
author: Winfried C M
description: Winfridah Chilyobwe Mcekeni is a wife, mother, daughter, sister and a friend. She is the author of the Wind of my sails- a diary of thoughtful thoughts. A journalist and a self imposed advocate of family and women's concerns. She was born in Zambia and has so far lived in four continents and calls herself a world citizen.
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  The Woman Who Saved Me
  
  
    
    
  Part I  
    
  Part II
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  http://www.blackmask.com
  
  
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  # The Woman Who Saved Me
  
  
  ### Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Blackmask Online.
  
  
  http://www.blackmask.com  
    
  
  * Part I
  
  
  * Part II
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### Part I
  
  
  THE medical man was holding my wrist and talking, and I was not
  
  
  listening. In the first place, I knew more about myself than he could
  
  
  tell me; in the second, I should scarcely have understood what he was
  
  
  saying if I had listened; and in the third, I was in so listless and
  
  
  indifferent a condition of mind that I did not care to listen -- did
  
  
  not care to answer -- did not even care to look, as I was half
  
  
  unconsciously looking at the dead brown leaves twisting in the eddying
  
  
  wind that whirled them down the street.
  
  
  How dull it all looked! how dull the dragging days were! how I was
  
  
  beginning to hate the big, obtrusive sto