title: Finding Beauty in the Darkness: A Healing Journey
author: Sarah A. Willis
description: Sarah A. Willis holds an MSW with a focus on early childhood development. She has worked in various capacities developing and implementing strategies to improve early education for children, families and providers. In addition, she was fortunate to be able to exercise her creativity by working in production for artisanal chocolatier Christopher Elbow. Sarah is a lifelong sufferer of Clinical Depression. Through these poems she documents the devastating effects of the disease on her life as well as her experiences with therapy, healing and recovery. Sarah currently resides in Kansas City, MO. This is her first book.
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  A Psychical Prank
  
  
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  # A Psychical Prank
  
  
  ### John Kendrick Bangs
  
  
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  ### I
  
  
  Willis had met Miss Hollister but once, and that, for a certain
  
  
  purpose, was sufficient. He was smitten. She represented in every way
  
  
  his ideal, although until he had met her his ideal had been something
  
  
  radically different. She was not at all Junoesque, and the maiden of
  
  
  his dreams had been decidedly so. She had auburn hair, which hitherto
  
  
  Willis had detested. Indeed, if the same hirsute wealth had adorned
  
  
  some other woman's head, Willis would have called it red. This shows
  
  
  how completely he was smitten. She changed his point of view entirely.
  
  
  She shattered his old ideal and set herself up in its stead, and she
  
  
  did most of it with a smile.
  
  
  There was something, however, about Miss Hollister's eyes that
  
  
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