A powerful true story of triumph over evil, the wonder of forgiveness, and the joy of second chances. Like a gazelle in the golden grasslands, Norma hides her child behind any brush and in any available hole around Roraima to protect him from vengeful prowlers and roving child snatchers. Ensnared by a local king - a charming con, a tyrant, and secret polygamist - she is trapped like other girls, in plain sight! Though it takes her ten blood-curling years bearing seven of the king's children to be freed, it is with grit, poise, and purged of toxic bitterness that she emerges and presents her crucial discovery to the establishment and the elite. A brilliant thinker, teacher, and advisor, she is determined to educate and equip children to not merely survive and thrive, but to be free and to explore their possibilities and to achieve. This uneasy journey back into the land of Eldorado in response to her cryptic deathbed dispatch (a secret code - ILICET!) puts a spotlight on her discovery: the Myosheka. Ten words drive, dictate, dominate every facet of human endeavor and individual pursuit. Four perform sweet puppetry in each and every last one of us, regardless of our origins and upbringing. They come with strings attached. Battery included! Know them. Understand them. Use them. Or they will use and abuse you! They define precisely why you and I do the things we do the way we do them. : A sobering reality check : Powerful tools and techniques : A mirror to see adult blind spots : Unflinching. Frank. Funny. Empowering. These are real events. Conversations are re-imagined to approximate the spirit of the moments. Some names have been changed, not to protect the guilty, but to respect privacies.

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