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The Creator Mindset Guide to Crisis

I T WAS A school day seemingly like any other on September 29, 1982. Twelve-year-old Mary Kellerman from Elk Grove Village just outside of Chicago woke up with a bad sore throat and a runny nose. She was a typical kid, and her symptoms were not remarkable in any way. She didn’t feel well enough to go to school that day, and her parents agreed to keep her home. They gave her some Tylenol and encouraged her to go back to bed, but they soon found her lifeless on the bathroom floor.1

Adam Janus woke up that same fateful morning of September 29, 1982, also not feeling right. A father of two young ...

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