I select her sentence and she reads it aloud.
I had selected her from an online roster on Self Space's website of 11 therapists and life coaches, all of whom are registered with the Health and Care Professions Council.
"To say she was a hidden gem is a true understatement, and her story and creative process is quite fascinating," says Aguirre-Livingston. "Lucy still doesn't know how or why we selected her, I'm waiting until she gets our copy or reads this.
"Well, I think the community selected her last year because of her bravery to expose war crimes that our government was hiding, and they felt that she was wrongly prosecuted, treated poorly while she was imprisoned and not really given a fair trial.
As she scoured the aisles of the local Bed, Bath & Beyond, armed with a scanner gun and series of lists, some color-coded, I shadowed her as she selected her essentials.
If I finally select her Cleopatra in Peter Hall's 1987 National Theatre production of Antony and Cleopatra, it's because the performance contained everything that makes Dench a great actor: her deeply Shakespearean ability to blend the tragic and the comic, her lightning shifts of mood, her capacity to make the verse sound as it sprang from her imagination.
My wife, though, whom I selected for her good genes, has only produced one son for me and has now become infertile.
Her peers selected her as her class representative, she said.
As she had largely had male teachers I selected a female tutor for her.
I selected one and gave it to her. "The Fortune card!" she exclaimed, beaming.
