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CHAPTER 1 – Fight Like a Girl

SYNCHRONICITY…A PARTNERSHIP FOR THERESE
1996

ACCOMMODATION OF DIVERSITY
prior to 1999
“She’s a woman, how can she be worth it?

**CHAPTER 2 – Have a Career Plan**

**GAG ORDER THERESE – THERESE LANDED PPS**
1995

LINK
1999-2003
“What do you want to be when you grow up”

**View from Michael’s office; Michael and me**
2018

CHAPTER 3 – Make Your Own Way

“The Allison’s weren’t afraid of rolling up their sleeves, of getting into the trenches and making their own way.”

**COLORADO**
2003-2010
“Arguably, no watercourse in the world is more fought over or sustains more human life and economy than the West’s greatest river, the Colorado.” – Obi Kaufman

**CHAPTER 5 – Be Yourself**

**TORI** with Huntington Beach High School in background
2018
**To watch highlights of Tori’s freshman year: Tori Allison Hagan – Varsity Highlights – Freshman year**

**CHAPTER 6 – Know Your Niche**

**HERITAGE**
prior to 1999
“Entering the game had given him the chance to show his value to the world.”

**CHAPTER 7 – Build Trust**

**Fishing on the Rogue River with UMGA** – **1996**

**Destiny**
Prior to 1999
**“It is easy to forget who you are doing it for”**

To watch Team USA 2 2016: WSSC 2016 Budapest – USA 2 (Miami University) – Free Skating

To watch Team Mexico 2016: WSSC 2016 Budapest – Mexico (Merging Edge) – Free Skating

CHAPTER 8 – The Velvet Glove

**JAMIE ALLISON CARDER**
a year of possibility
1994

**From left: J.C. and Lotta; the La Jolla Estate; Joan, Lotta and Ned**

**Anaheim Ice: Michael and me with the Crosstown Cup; Jamie in center with team; Michael and my dad after UCLA/USC game**

To watch Team USA 2 2016: Spring Cup 2016 – Miami University – Short Program

**Tori and Jamie at Spring Cup, Milan Italy** – 2009

To watch Team USA: Spring Cup 2009 -California Gold – USA – Senior FP

CHAPTER 9 – Wear Your Selling Suit

**From left: Lloyd’s of London; exterior and interior**

At Cavalry and Guard’s Club
me and Gloria Mayer
**1997**

Entering Lloyd’s of London – 1997

To watch Princess Diana’s memorial video, with Elton John singing Candle in the Wind:

Lady Diana – Candle in the wind (Goodbye Englands rose) – Elton John – Lyrics in text

CHAPTER 10: Humor the Winning Edge

Photo of the “Girl in the Red Tights”
Me in the red tights, my Uncle Ned, my cousins and my sisters
Circa 1963

**Top left: location of Coral Cay house; Michael and Jamie in back yard; set up for “Christmas on the Cay”**
**1998**

**Team USA 2: The World is Ours…Team Japan: The Rose**
**To watch Team USA 2015: Mozart Cup 2015 – Miami University – Short Program**
**To watch Team Japan 2015: 2015 World Synchro Champs SP Team Japan**

CHAPTER 11 – Chaos is Opportunity

**“I’m buying the election ….. because the American people can’t afford to”**
1992

“A surprise win-win” condo
My dad’s painting is on back wall

NEW CENTURY
1999-2003
“Water was the new Gold”

“I cannot judge these men but it seems as if the evidence is conclusive…”
Gould Allison
**To watch Michael and UCLA hockey team video: You Can Play – UCLA Bruins Hockey and Figure Skating.mov**
**CHAPTER 12 – Be a cheerleader**

Baron Shidehara
JAPAN’S MAN OF PEACE AND WAR 1931

**Sheryl Crow and me**
**To watch Sheryl Crow on 2002 tour singing Steve McQueen: Sheryl Crow – “Steve McQueen” live 2002 stereo**

**CHAPTER 13 – Build a Golden Circle of Friends**

Me, Kathy Rhoads, Cara Badger 1979; Cara Bottom left, me 3^rd from left middle row; Me, Cara and Moody Cabanillas 2014

**“DO…ACT AS THOUGH IT’S ALREADY BEEN GRANTED”**
2002

**ITALIAN SCENE**
Dad, you painted this!
1983

**“It’s like HE gives you clues…but not the answer”; “Connect the Dots**” – **2004**

**“Wayne Dyer…There’s a Spiritual Solution to every problem”**
**April 2002**

**Jamie and coach Laura; Dr. Wayne Dyer; my dad and I circa 1970.**

**Me in the “Monte Carlo and Scotch Tape” dress with Jamie.**

CHAPTER 15 – Expect Miracles

**WITH GOD ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE** – 1998

**2004**
**GOD COMES THROUGH – Dear God – Please heal my back – Thank you God, NO Surgery**

**Della Reese and my dad**; Prayer pad #24 – “He’ll dance at the least provocation”…Can’t contain JOY.
2004

**“Rev. Wm called me and we talked for 45 minutes…GOD HAS ANSWERED MY PRAYERS”**
2004

**“POSSIBLE”**
**1999-2003**
**“God is inside me. I can feel the presence beyond myself.”**

**Jamie’s text April 1^st, 2015, “Rhapsody in Blue”. My dad and I in 2013**

**“Music…It is you…It is every Church that ever existed…It tells me about heaven…it is the universal language of mankind on this earth…It is love.”**

2015 World Synchronized Skating Championships…Hamilton, Canada

Picture from figure skating magazine. Jamie is front, middle right.

SKATING PERFORMANCES:

To watch Team Sweden 2: 2015 WSSC Hamilton – Boomerang – Sweden 2 – Free Skating

To watch Team USA 2: 2015 World Synchro Champs FS Team USA 2

To watch Team Canada 1: 2015 WSSC Hamilton – Nexxice – Canada 1 – Free Skating

CHAPTER 16 – THE TURNING POINT

**Tori’s post 2019 and Michaels view September 8th, 2015**

Tori, Michael, me, Jamie
Huntington Beach
2018

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