Welcome to the You Can Heal Your Life Podcast.

Today, you'll hear an excerpt from the newly revised 10th anniversary edition of Anita

Morgione's audiobook, Dying To Be Me, My Journey From Cancer to Near Death to True Healing.

You can listen to the full audiobook free for 14 days in the Hay House Unlimited Audio

app.

Chapter 1 Growing Up Different India is a wonderful country, yet

I wasn't destined to live there.

Although my parents are ethnically Indian, originating from Hyderabad's Sindh, I was born

in the beautiful country of Singapore.

My paternal grandfather was a textile merchant who owned a family business in Sri Lanka,

importing and exporting European, Indian and Chinese textiles throughout the world.

Because of the nature of our company, my father was required to travel around before

finally settling down in what was the British colony of Hong Kong when I was just two

years old.

My origins immersed me in three cultures and languages simultaneously.

Hong Kong, a vibrant and bustling metropolis, is a city predominantly populated by Chinese,

so I learnt to speak Cantonese with the local people.

My parents sent both my brother Anup and me to British schools, where the teaching was

in English and most of my schoolmates were British expatriates.

At home, however, my family spoke our native Sindhi language and practiced the Hindu way

of life.

My father was a tall handsome man who commanded respect from his family.

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