title: The Self-Love Affair: A Womans Guide To A Daring & Mighty Life
author: Katie Phillips
description: Katie Phillips founded The School of Self Love. She is a personal coach, transformational retreat leader, inspirational speaker and presenter. Her work shares the truth that love is our natural state and when we choose to be guided by our Spirit, a miraculous life is available to every single one of us.
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  A Wish to Build a Dream On
  
  Copyright 2011 © Michelle Willingham
  
  Cover Design by Hot Damn Designs
  
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  Chapter One
  
  Garrett was completely wrong, Mary Samson told herself, straightening in her
  seat. Just because she preferred an organized life on a schedule didn’t make
  her a prude incapable of being impulsive.
  
  Wasn’t this impulsive enough? Taking two weeks’ vacation from her engineering
  position to travel to Ireland? She hadn’t taken a vacation in three years
  because … well, she’d always been too busy. There were simulations to run,
  project meetings to attend, and countless e-mails to answer. She’d prided
  herself on being dependable—a responsible adult with a good job and a bright
  future.
  
  It hadn’t been enough for Garrett. They’d dated for almost a year before he’d
  dumped her last Thursday.
  
  “It’s just not working, Mary. I need someone more impulsive. Someone who likes
  to live on the edge.”
  
  “I can be more exciting,” she’d promised him. “Spontane