Chapters 4 and 5 Summary

These two chapters, recounted in flashback, narrate how the author came to be in Australia and the work she did there.

"Ready, Set, Go." The author is invited to move to Australia to work with the Australian health care system and teach about the use and benefits of an innovative medical diagnostic tool. She knows it would be a major change for her but realizes she's never going to have a chance like this again. She goes through a complicated process of assimilation into her new home, makes friends, and has an initial degree of success in her work. One day, while waiting for a friend, a young man reads her palm and tells her she has come to Australia to fulfill her destiny and meet a person whose soul was tied to hers before their births, which took place at...