A reading with a psychic needs to be very specific.

Dates, numbers, months, how that spirit that stepping forward pass.

The moment that you hear somebody generalizing, that's not a psychic medium.

Zulema Arroyo Farley's memoir, so much more, is about finding love and building a life in the face of overwhelming challenges.

Today, the former advertising and marketing executive is battling sarcoma, a rare cancer, while telling the world a secret she's harbored her entire life.

She is a psychic medium, able to communicate with the spirit world.

Zulima, so good to see you.

Hello, Alicia.

How are you?

I am so happy to have you here.

So many questions.

So let's start with the one on everyone's mind.

What is a medium?

A medium is someone that has the ability to connect with our loved ones that have

departed. What that means, and I don't really like to talk about it in these terms, is that

I speak to the dead. Why don't you like to talk about it that way? There's a lack of information

and misinformation and education on mediumship. And a lot of people think it's something negative, especially

in the Hispanic culture where I come from. They think it's like witchcraft or black magic,

Brugheria. So to say the dead, it has like, to me, it feels like we're disrespecting our

loved ones because there's still our loved ones, no matter the fact that they passed.

You sort of grew up all over.

One of my favorite parts of the book is your time in Jersey City since I grew up in Union

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