Hello believers, non-believers, and everyone in between. You're listening to stories with

Sapphire. I am Sapphire Sandalo. Now get cozy and open your mind because it's story time. Oh, you're going to be.

Oh, you're doing.

Oh, you're not.

Oh, you know.

Oh, you know. Hey everyone. Welcome to Small Tales and emails where I read your responses to the

podcast in between regular episodes.

As always, if you'd like to submit an email or story, you can send it to

stories with Sapphire at gmail.com.

But before we get into it, I wanted to thank you for

your patience for the start of the new season. I've been trying to align it with

an announcement but it keeps moving. So thank you for your patience. I promise it will be starting soon.

In the meantime I want to share this not so small email from Brenda Traper,

a Navajo woman in Arizona. Just a heads up, this story contains brief mentions of child and sexual abuse. Hello Sapphire, I'm a recent fan and I thoroughly enjoy your stories and

listener stories as well. I am an indigenous woman having circled the sun on our

mother-Earth 52 times.

The stories I enjoy the most are from women with abilities, healers,

psychics, and or witches.

Years ago, in 2007, I had a near-death experience in which my heart

affibed. I was flown to the nearest hospital available and spent four days in the ICU, not knowing if I was going to live or die.

My husband had to make the difficult decision to remain at home with our three small children as he didn't trust family

members to babysit them. I was about two and a half hours from home. He

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