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    The Golden Box
    The Golden Box
    The Golden Box
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    The Golden Box

    By Brian Cook and David Shephard

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    At some point in our childhoods we learn the awful truth: there is no Peter Pan. We will age and die like all those who came before us. The Golden Box is a quest to rise above the facts, to see beyond our mortality, and to finally assume our proper place in spirithood.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMar 31, 2012
    ISBN9781626757172
    The Golden Box
    Author

    Brian Cook

    This true story about the author’s grandsons (ages 6 and 4) motivated him to write this book. He is a graduate of the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

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