The Other Side of Me. Sidney Sheldon

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       The Other Side of Me

      Sidney Sheldon

      

       For my beloved granddaughters, Lizy and Rebecca

       so that they will know what a magical journey I had

      ‘He that has no fools, knaves nor beggars in his family was begot by a flash of lightning.’

      THOMAS FULLER

      Seventeenth-century English clergyman

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Dedication

       Epigraph

       Ten

       Eleven

       Twelve

       Thirteen

       Fourteen

       Fifteen

       Sixteen

       Seventeen

       Eighteen

       Nineteen

       Twenty

       Twenty-One

       Twenty-Two

       Twenty-Three

       Twenty-Four

       Twenty-Five

       Twenty-Six

       Twenty-Seven

       Twenty-Eight

       Twenty-Nine

       Thirty

       Thirty-One

       Thirty-Two

       Thirty-Three

       Afterword

       Sidney Sheldon’s Credits

       Index

       Preview

       About the Author

       Books by Sidney Sheldon

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       ONE

      At the age of seventeen, working as a delivery boy at Afremow’s drugstore in Chicago was the perfect job, because it made it possible for me to steal enough sleeping pills to commit suicide. I was not certain exactly how many pills I would need, so I arbitrarily decided on twenty, and I was careful to pocket only a few at a time so as not to arouse the suspicion of our pharmacist. I had read that whiskey and sleeping pills were a deadly combination, and I intended to mix them, to make sure I would die.

      It was Saturday—the Saturday I had been waiting for. My parents would be away for the weekend and my brother, Richard, was staying at a friend’s. Our apartment would be deserted, so there would be no one there to interfere with my plan.

      At six o’clock,

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