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\n“This anthology was born of an international writing competition. Writers sometimes need accessible challenges to get them up and typing, and the competition asked them to write about a turning point in their life. The writing astonished us \u2014 it was as if the writers had taken note of the English poet Sir Philip Sydney\u2019s muse simply instructing, \u2018look in thy heart and write\u2019”<\/span><\/h4>\n
– Editor Gareth St. John Thomas (Introduction – The Turning Point)<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/h4>\n
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The stories that are featured in\u00a0The <\/em>Turning Point\u00a0<\/em>are deeply personal and often intimate accounts of the human experience, each one as different from one another as the people who wrote them.<\/span>
\nWe wanted to share some of these stories with you in the lead up to release, but we also knew that maintaining the intimacy and humanity of the original stories was extremely important.<\/span><\/h4>\nSo, we asked the contributors of\u00a0The Turning Point\u00a0<\/em>to join us in creating this exciting project – The Voices of The Turning Point.<\/span><\/h4>\n
Organised into 6 parts, just like the book, this collection of audio recordings features stories of life altering events, read by the people who lived them.<\/span><\/h4>\n
We hope you enjoy these recordings and the other stories featured in The Turning Point <\/em>– you never know, maybe one of them will be your own Turning Point.<\/span><\/h4>\n
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VICKY LOPEZ<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Skin to sea<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n
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\n\u201cIt did not matter that I could not swim. The ocean\u2019s waters lapped and grazed at my hip bones and I revelled in the understanding of what it meant to be free.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
My name is Vicky Lopez. I\u2019m 22-years old and I grew up in South San Francisco, California . In the time since I\u2019ve left Santa Barbara, I\u2019ve reflected on the cluster of memories I collected during my four years there.<\/span><\/p>\n
This story is one of those memories, one which I felt particularly compelled to share as it seems to have left the most lasting effect on my being. I hope you enjoyed it.<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n\n