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My Time in Heaven Letter
June 20’ 12
Dear Richard Sigmund,

My name is Kimberly I’m fifteen years old and I bought your book “ My Time in Heaven” yesterday (June 19’ 12). I got the idea to start reading books about people dying and coming back life after the day that I went to the carnival last week. I went to the carnival with my family and on my way back home we started to talk about how if you play a song backwards you hear another message. Its called backmasking. If you don’t know what it means I’d rather you look it up on google than me explain it to you because I’m not good with explaining. After speaking about that my somewhat aunt said that we needed to watch what we listened to because those are devilish songs and if we were to die the next minute or even second we would be sent to hell for listening to the devilish songs. Singers like Beyonce, Nicki Minaj, Drake, and Lady Gaga all have those subliminal messages in them. Saying to kill and lean on them and saying that they were rich and beautiful because they worship Lucifer. Then my aunt started to say how she saw this video on YouTube of this lady that died and came back to life. She was taken to hell to see what it was like and to warn the people up on earth. She said that she had seen the pope, Michael Jackson and Selena (the Spanish singer that died long time ago). Selena had told her that every time they play her songs up on earth, the demons beat her. I got interested all of this. I didn’t and don’t want to hell. I didn’t think that it was that bad. After I heard that people are set on fire and all those things you mentioned in the book I wanted to do all little more research about heaven and hell. I went to Barnes N’ Noble yesterday and went to the religion section and such a book of books. Out of all the books I saw I only saw two books that talk about someone dying, seeing heaven and hell, and coming back to life. Before hearing about all this hell and heaven things that you described in the book, I didn’t really

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