Sylvia Browne
Mother’s best friend and partner in crime from St. Teresa’s Academy in Kansas City, MO, died two weeks ago at seventy-seven. Sylvia claimed a psychic inheritance from her grandmother and began giving readings professionally in the 1970s. In the next three decades she became one of the most famous psychics in the world appearing frequently on Larry King and hosting her own cable television show. She earned millions of dollars a year giving readings and making predictions. Her reputation was tarnished in the early 2000s by several mistaken claims about the victims of kidnappings and New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley winning the White House. It was to Sylvia (then Sylvia Celeste Shoemaker) that Mother (then Georgann McAdams) confessed that she would marry my father James Lawless. I wonder if Sylvia saw what was coming?
