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I don’t know when Jane Goldman wrote her book, but that’s exactly what I found to be true 25 years ago: I needed help after a bad break-up but couldn’t afford therapy, so I went to see a highly recommended tarot reader, despite my firm belief it was all hokum.She made me feel much better and indeed most of what she saw in the cards has come true.

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Yeah, it’s a function that might once have been fulfilled by the village wise woman, or the parish priest. It’s also something i encounter in journalism; people hold stories very close to the surface that they want — need — to share. Particularly trauma. Not being heard or believed is a fresh wound.

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