That was my day job to feed me and pay the rent. Then in the evenings and on weekends, I was at the school, learning as much as I could about this new mysterious way of thinking and looking, mostly by listening to this Fourth Way Master Thane.

And that’s what went on for the next few years, working and learning, working and learning.

Then, 5 years later, my parents invited me to join them in Florida, and Thane told me that if I went there was a lady in Orlando who very much wanted to hear the GiveFor Class (Giving up the idea that person/place/thing did anything to you for the idea that it was all mind unfolding). So I went out to her place, she was very elderly, and I played the tapes for her, Saturday and Sunday. I did the paperwork and sent it to The Prosperos Headquarters, making this my first Monitor Class for The Prosperos.

Long story short, by the time I got back home to Marlboro, NY, I had two classes waiting for me to teach in WilkesBarre Pennsylvania and somewhere else I can’t remember. Then on to Columbus, Ohio, then Minneapolis, Saint Paul, then to Boulder Colorado, then back to The Prospers.

In NY I picked up a companion, Hugh John Malanaphy. I was 24 and he was 20. He was the most beautiful person I’d ever seen. I loved him the moment I saw him, and he was excited to go on an adventure. It was the sweetest romance I’ve ever had. I felt this deep love for him all the time, day and night, it was a glowing feeling right in the center of my chest. I didn’t need to sleep, but we cuddled together every night, I’d just hold him in my arms and feel this heavenly love all night in the many hotels along the way, but never sex, sex was not wanted, and the feeling of love was way more than enough.

When we got to Santa Monica, California, Hugh John and I got a one bedroom apartment and began our residency in Southern California. It was a very happy time. I was teaching, and I had a Platonic boyfriend.