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By Maryanne Comaroto

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Maryanne and I met when she was on her book tour for  Skinny, Tan, & Rich .  Connected — at a deep level — instantly.  We share the same kind of hyper-sexual, violent background.  Sisters.  After the interview, when we parted, she gave me a red, alligator-skin belt bracelet with letters that said SHOMI — show me. I kept the bracelet on till its little belt wore out, and it fell off my wrist.  I figured that was a sign I had graduated.  Maryanne grew up, got married again, to a really great guy, while I got divorced, and began healing parts of me I didn’t even know needed healing.

I opened her new book, Hindsight: What You Need to Know Before You Drop Your Drawers! and began taking her true/false quiz.  “Happily Ever After is real and possible…I can change a man if I’m the right woman…I have to say yes even when I want to say no.”   True, true, true, I answer true to most of the statements, and I’m getting really horny.  Oh crap — that girl is still inside of me, the one that was damaged when she was five, and her stepfather indoctrinated her as his little sex-toy.

Maryanne writes to tune into my body – listen — what is it saying to me?  Beyond the obvious.  I love that her “most favorite question” is the same as mine — “What do I need to know right now?”  That is a deep question, one that I release as if it’s a prayer.  The answer is always divine.

She sets out tools and exercises to break open your awareness, break you of old behaviors, and break new ground in relationships with guys.  Hindsight is brutal and true — the stories of women she knows, smart, beautiful women who made bad choices about men — will raise the tiny hairs on the back of your neck.  Chilling stories.  And, she articulates another way.  Save yourself, she counsels.  She even offers a list of questions to ask your dreamy guy before you drop your drawers.  Ask him these questions — they could save your life!

And, Hindsight is your girlfriend telling you what’s up.

I pull my copy of Skinny Tan & Rich off my bookshelf and open Maryanne’s 2003 memoir.  She has written in beautiful cursive:  Diana, You are beautiful inside out and I am honored to be able to stay awake on our paths together. Many Blessings, Maryanne Comaroto.

She reminds me of the greater journey — the one beyond healing, the one that reveals all the secrets so other little girls who are now women know that they can break free of old bonds and bad new boyfriends, the one that says have faith.