title: Will the Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
author:  Studs Terkel 
description: <b>In these moving, thought-provoking, and powerful interviews, Terkel beautifully illustrates that this book may be about death, but only by living to the full its long prelude, life. <br />Associated Press</b><i><br /></i><br /><b>TERRIFYING, MOVING, PAINFUL, AND REDEMPTIVE . . . Terkel provides us with [a] community, and . . . there is solace in knowing, at least for now, that we are not alone.<br /><i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><i><br /></i>
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  CircleofDeath
  
  
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  Copyright ©2002 by Keri Arthur
  
  
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  CircleofDeath
  
  
  **Chapter One**
  
  
  _Australia, Present Day_
  
  
  Death had come calling on a windblown, wintry evening. It smashed past the
  deadbolts lining the front door, and with unparalleled glee, grabbed the
  living, sucking the life from them until there was nothing left but husks.
  Then it tore the remains apart, as if determined to erase any evidence of
  humanity.
  
  
  Kirby wasn't home at the time.
  
  
  But her best friend was.
  
  
  Kirby stood on the edge of the porch, in the wind and the rain, and