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  • Recently, God brought people back into my life from my college days -- anam cara or "soul friends," true companions who walk with, support, challenge, delight and care for me in ways I could never have imagined, planned for or anticipated even a few years ago.

    Cathleen Falsani: Thanks(giving) Be to God Cathleen Falsani 2011

  • Recently, God brought people back into my life from my college days -- anam cara or "soul friends," true companions who walk with, support, challenge, delight and care for me in ways I could never have imagined, planned for or anticipated even a few years ago.

    Cathleen Falsani: Thanks(giving) Be to God Cathleen Falsani 2011

  • Recently, God brought people back into my life from my college days -- anam cara or "soul friends," true companions who walk with, support, challenge, delight and care for me in ways I could never have imagined, planned for or anticipated even a few years ago.

    Cathleen Falsani: Thanks(giving) Be to God Cathleen Falsani 2011

  • Recently, God brought people back into my life from my college days -- anam cara or "soul friends," true companions who walk with, support, challenge, delight and care for me in ways I could never have imagined, planned for or anticipated even a few years ago.

    Cathleen Falsani: Thanks(giving) Be to God Cathleen Falsani 2011

  • Faced with this, Moirin who is essentially a creature of light and life lived to the full has to adapt and find the necessary inner resources, especially when cruel fanatics find a way to chain her magic that not only she cannot use it, but also Bao's half of the diadh-anam cannot feel it so he would naturally assume her dead and believe the implied lies about that.

    "Naamah's Curse" by Jacqueline Carey (Reviewed by Liviu Suciu) Liviu 2010

  • One of the few bits of Irish I know is ‘anam cara’ or soul-friend, which is a lovely term.

    Writer Unboxed » Blog Archive » Take Five Interview: Juliet Marillier and Heir to Sevenwaters 2008

  • Far from the land of her birth, Moirin sets out across Tatar territory to find Bao, the proud and virile Ch'in fighter who holds the missing half of her diadh-anam, the divine soul-spark of her mother's people.

    Liviu's Top Ten Anticipated Novels of 2010 Liviu 2009

  • Far from the land of her birth, Moirin sets out across Tatar territory to find Bao, the proud and virile Ch'in fighter who holds the missing half of her diadh-anam, the divine soul-spark of her mother's people.

    Archive 2009-11-01 Liviu 2009

  • July 15, 2009 at 8:02 PM anam, that name sounds familiar. is she that middle eastern looking girl? i walked in looking to buy a car charger and the girl kept pushing me to sign up on the stupid 99 cap! talk about trying to get commission… she was so damn pushy.

    Beware Of Lying iPhone Salespeople | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Far from the land of her birth, Moirin sets out across Tatar territory to find Bao, the proud and virile Ch'in fighter who holds the missing half of her diadh-anam, the divine soul-spark of her mother's people.

    Liviu's Anticipated Novels of 2010 - collated post to be referred to and updated frequently as books come Liviu 2009

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