We all have two lives. We only get to experience living in the second after we realize we only have just one.
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About the Book
My SECOND Life
by Yeats
Published 3 July 2023
Genre: Memoir
Page Count: 305
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We all have two lives. We only get to experience living in the second after we realize we only have just one.
I have my first real scare in life when I get attacked by a kangaroo when I am seven. My first brush with the cliff-face edge of death comes when I am 12. My dad drives the family down the dangerous Skipper’s Canyon dirt road in New Zealand in a rented minivan.
Including the occasion I am almost involved in two different plane flight crashes, in the same night, there have been at least a half dozen more occasions when I have been within a moment’s inattention of being killed.
However, none of those frightening incidents compare to what I experience after my son is abducted.
This memoir is the story of how I used the traumatic experiences of my life to give me strength to forge on during a 13 year fight to be a father to my son.
What did it take for me to get to my second life?
It took me to truly understand what fear is.
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Excerpt
As I cross the hotel lobby floor towards the elevator, a man approaches me and addresses me by name.
Oh god, not again. I know what this is. Another process server who is going to hand me court documents to tell me I am now being sued for refusing to follow my ex-wife’s demands to buy my son another cell phone.
That would have been far more preferable.
The man leads me over to the couches in the hotel lobby, and we sit. He speaks only Portuguese so that I can only understand some of what he says. So, I use Google translate so I can fully understand what is going on.
His name is Michael.
The man is not from the court.
He is on the direct opposite side of the law, as it turns out.
He is a killer for hire.
My ex-wife has hired his services.
What? Right now, I know I am sitting in bizarro world.
About the Author
Simon Yeats has lived nine lives, and by all estimations, is fast running out of the number he has left. His life of globetrotting the globe was not the one he expected to lead. He grew up a quiet, shy boy teased by other kids on the playgrounds for his red hair. But he developed a keen wit and sense of humor to always see the funnier side of life.
With an overwhelming love of travel, a propensity to find trouble where there was none, and being a passionate advocate of mental health, Simon’s stories will leave a reader either rolling on the floor in tears of laughter, or breathing deeply that the adventures he has led were survived.
No author has laughed longer or cried with less restraint at the travails of life.
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This looks like a great read. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you for featuring MY SECOND LIFE today.
I read that Simon Yeats has survived 9 near death experiences; 2 more than cats. I just know this book will have humor and I can’t wait to read it.
I only stopped counting at nine.