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carrying around in his pockets that without any     we let those feelings out of our bodies, it makes it
of the hurt feelings in the way, the happy feel-    even easier to feel the love and happiness inside
ings were downright illuminating. He was radiant    ourselves.
with love and happiness! The other angels saw
that even if he were thousands of miles above           The story of the Pocket Angel was originally
the earth, the people below could still feel his    written by Marnie Loomis ND for her ailing uncle,
love and happiness.                                 Bill Carew, a dedicated children’s counselor at
                                                    Highfields, Inc. At the time, Bill had been suffering
    As you may have guessed, Bill was promoted      from a very painful yet unidentified illness, and the
to be a star angel. This made him very happy,       story helped to put his pain into perspective. Since his
because as a star angel up in the sky, he would be  death, the ending of the story has been amended from
able to shine on the whole world below. In this     the original version.
new place in the sky, he knew that children all
over the world would be able to look up into the        Marnie joined Toastmasters for Speaking
night sky and find him whenever they needed         Professionals in 2014 and has earned her Competent
him. They would be able to see his sparkly          Communicator award. She is a Naturopathic
happiness and would be reminded that it was         Clinician, educator and communicator with a
okay to let their hurt feelings go, because when    deep understanding of medical science and human
                                                    interaction.

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