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Send Me Someone: A True Story of Love Here and Hereafter [Hardcover]

Diana von Welanetz Wentworth (Author)
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June 9, 2001
In the movie Ghost, the passionate moment when Patrick Swayze is able to reach out to Demi Moore from the other side touched people in a way that few movies do. Can a departed loved one really change the course of our lives? Diana von Welanetz Wentworth knows with all her heart that love does transcend death. It happened to her.

From the beginning, Diana Webb and Paul von Welanetz were a storybook couple. Their courtship was a transcontinental whirlwind. The enchantment of their first days together seemed to grow richer with time, and endured through twenty-five years of marriage. Diana and Paul shared everything, personally and professionally. Their passion for cooking, entertaining, and bringing people together led them to successful careers as award-winning cookbook authors, as hosts of a television show, and later as founders of the Inside Edge, an influential human-potential organization. Regarded by friends as a perfect match, they were even named "One of L.A.'s Most Romantic Couples" by Los Angeles magazine.

But one day, everything changed. They discovered that their adventure together was to be cut short, for Paul was diagnosed with cancer. Diana was devastated. Soon afterward, in rapidly declining health, Paul told her, "I don't want you to be alone." She replied impulsively, "Then send me someone!" He responded, "I will." That promise is at the heart of the extraordinary story told in Send Me Someone.

Not long after Paul's death, things began to happen to Diana that made it very apparent that Paul was still "present" in her life and actively concerned with her well-being. Within months, fate introduced her to a new man-- Ted Wentworth. But he wasn't at all like the dreamy, romantic Paul. And hardly the sort of man that Diana thought Paul might send to her.

Ted was a prominent attorney-- realistic, funny, mischievous, even a little confrontational. Despite the obvious differences, Diana found herself falling in love with Ted and began to discover another side of him-- his extraordinary sense of intuition. Ted revealed something that astonished Diana-- he felt a startling inner connection to Paul von Welanetz! In fact, a series of remarkable occurrences soon convinced them both that Ted was indeed the "someone" Paul promised to send.

Send Me Someone is both a romantic love story and a credible account of communication with someone from "the other side." It is an engaging, real-life tale, proving that love, once known, never really dies. Send Me Someone is, without a doubt, the most compelling love story of the year.

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Part romantic potboiler, this memoir has a twist: the principal characters (including the author herself) believe their destinies are psychically linked. Wentworth, the sheltered daughter of a California millionaire, met her first husband, Paul von Welanetz, while touring Asia, and instantly recognized him as her soulmate; their marriage was to last 25 years, until his death from cancer. Using journal entries and flashbacks, Wentworth interweaves three narratives: the story of her romance and psychic connection to Paul, the story of her self-realization as a successful cookbook author and entrepreneur, and the story of Paul's death and her journey through grief into new love. Founder of a human potential organization (where the Chicken Soup book series got its start), Wentworth records her efforts to make the most of her own life. Each of her stories insists that with desire and determination, all obstacles can be overcome sometimes in ways so inexplicable they can be attributed only to the mysterious but highly resourceful entity New Agers like to call Spirit. The most striking example of this is Diana's belief that her second husband, Ted Wentworth, was sent by her first to comfort her. Some may find Wentworth's sense of destiny smug or implausible, but others will appreciate her tale as that of a true survivor, whose drive to create happiness and success within her life should be applauded whether she had the help of destiny or merely purpose.

Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

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"Diana gives us all an example of how love heals, life works, and human connections are far more profound than we usually realize. Diana is a living example of the alchemy of love. Her story is incredible, magical, and deeply spiritual. Read it please; Send Me Someone will leave you forever changed-- and transformed."--Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., bestselling author of Making Peace with Your Past: The 6 Essential Steps to Enjoying a Great Life

"Send Me Someone is sure to be one of the most enduring love stories of our time. I knew Diana and her husband, Paul, for many years, and was there as this amazing tale unfolded. This book captures the magic and mystery of their relationship and reminds us that there is no end to the forms in which love can come to us."--Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D., author of Real Moments

"Send Me Someone is a remarkable and inspiring love story, told with zest and humor, that reminds us that love is more powerful than death."--Jack Canfield, co-author of the #1 bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Renaissance Books; 1st edition (June 9, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1580632009
  • ISBN-13: 978-1580632003
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,656,228 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A "You'll Love This!" Read, May 25, 2001
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Judy Foley (San Francisco, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Send Me Someone: A True Story of Love Here and Hereafter (Hardcover)
I climbed into bed one night intending to read several chapters and lights out at a reasonable time. I read all night long(!) and finished it about 4:00 a.m. I can remember being this engrossed only twice before -- Gone with the Wind and The Poisonwood Bible -- nosleep/all night sojourns. I laughed, cried (sobbed), and was riveted the entire night. This book may be labeled as a memoir, but it also shares suspense, poignancy, recognition, ah hah's; faith, joy, humor, and, most of all, love with the reader. I know that anyone and everyone who reads this splendid work will be similarly affected.

I see/know so many women who need to hear this story in order to be able to connect reality with what is mistakenly described as the fairy tale. This is an ongoing conversation for me with the women who claim there are no good men out there. I so agree with the author that good men are all over if we choose to see/hear them.

This book has music for me. The romantic strains of All Night Long comes up frequently, as does the shark music from Jaws with the author's father, and Ted's part, of course, evokes a lilting Baby Elephant Walk. Why doesn't this computer have musical notes so that I can illustrate my thoughts!?!?!

I had to sit down and IMMEDIATELY share how much I loved this writing (style, content, energy, warmth/ connection, and use of time (reminds me of Faulkner's Sound and the Fury). I know it will sell millions of copies and touch multiple millions of lives.

Judy Foley, President, The Patricia Moore Group, California's Premier Introduction Service for Single Professionals Since 1984.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars THE PROOF OF ENDURING LIFE IS THE BEHOLDER, June 23, 2001
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This review is from: Send Me Someone: A True Story of Love Here and Hereafter (Hardcover)
This is one of 5 best books I have ever read in my life and I am 72 yrs. old. There is a wealth of books that prove (to me) that life is everlasting and what you make of life in this world is up to you..period.

This books covers the entire spectrum of life. Yearning for love and a better life, searching for occupations, success, loss ..redemption..a brand new life..friendship and all of the emotions and happenings of a life. The author has picked the right words that fit into an experience of reading perfection. She relates experiences that could be unbelievable to some, but to me are as true and life uplifting that I must sing a song of thanksgiving that I discovered this book.

If you want to read a wonderful love story and get proof of the power of love, read Send Me Someone.

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Send Me Someone: A True Story of Love Here and Hereafter, May 23, 2001
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Wonderful book! Both a wrenching story of love and loss and a riveting chronicle of the author's life. Intensly revealing, beautifully rendered memories kept me turning pages into the night. Yes, you cry - you sob with sadness for the author's loss and the beauty of their love for eachother. Ultimately deeply healing and fulfilling - this book left me with a profound respect for the power of love and a lingering taste of the sweetness of a life fully lived.
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PAUL LAY on the couch, his aching legs comforted by the afghan I'd made the winter we lost everything. Read the first page
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