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SECTION TWO
The Return of Jeanne Stockwell
INTRODUCTION
I am asked quite often if the original Leapfrog is “real” or fiction. It is both, that is, everything in it actually happened, but I took all kinds of fictional liberties as to geography, characters and so on.
The most liberal work of fiction is any relationship of the author to the character Brad Cullen. I am not he and he is not I. Fiction is a wonderful way to disseminate historical fact and spiritual truth in a cloak of “adjustable reality” …you know, it very well could have happened this way even if that’s not quite the way it actually happened; names, places and timing of events are changed to completely mask any similarity to real persons or places – in other words don’t look for anybody in here to represent anyone you’ve ever known, because it just isn’t so.
As to the name, Brad Cullen, it is a pen name. I wrote commercially for almost fifty years under my “legal” name. Events about fifteen years ago conspired to make me decide to “hide behind” the word “anonymous.”
I dreamed up this fabulous, good-looking, loving and lovable character, Brad Cullen, to be the central character in the first Leapfrog (written anonymously). Along comes a publisher, in Vancouver, B.C. who offered to sponsor and manage a website dedicated to my writings and to publish my books – he wanted me to retain the name of the author as Brad Cullen …and a forthcoming book with another publisher still carries the pseudonym.
The spiritual truth is that my “legal” name isn’t “me” either. That’s part of the “truth” I feel called and even “chosen” to share. You aren’t the name your “earthly” parents saddled you with either. Hopefully, in this sequel to the first Leapfrog, you’ll discover your true identity. That’s my purpose for writing and a part of my purpose for living.
If the timing isn’t quite right for you to grab onto this as “truth,” for you, that’s perfectly okay, but either way I do hope you enjoy Leapfrog: The Next Quantum Leap (renamed IN THE BEGINNING)
Brad Cullen
Margate, Florida
August 21, 2020
In Freedom,
Brad