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The next day we checked into the Hotel Am Meer, another lights turned back on, and it was time to go, I didn’t want to
4-star hotel right, on the boardwalk overlooking the trees to move. When the therapist suggested I might buy a bag of the
the beach. The spa in this classic seaside boutique hotel was healing chalk I’d just rinsed off in the warm shower, I agreed,
the site of my second and truly memorable treatment. The not caring how much it cost. I couldn’t believe it was only 6
Rügener Three Crowns Healing Chalk body wrap, which in- Euro, and even then I would have paid much more. I didn’t
volved laying flat on my back on a large water-bed style tub/ realize it until I got home, and visited my podiatrist for confir-
massage table, slathered from my ears to the bottom of my mation, that I knew that I’d experienced a full cure. Not to get
feet in the native fine chalk, mixed with oil and warm mineral too personal here, but a skin condition on the bottom of my
waters. They wrapped me like a mummy in sheets, the water- feet had completely healed, and my surgery, put off for years,
bed began to fill, encompassing me with warm water, holding and scheduled for my return to the US, was canceled. A note
me securely and tightly for a blissful 45 minutes. When the of caution, however. When Byron carried my bag of healing

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