Leila
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Eighteen-month-old daughter, Leila, had died of scarlet fever a few years before.
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Leila’s spirit repeated her request for help, spelling out, “try to.”
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But when Sarah reached forward to help her baby daughter up, the circle was broken, and Leila disappeared.
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Leila and Frankie, the Taylors’ dead children, were the stars of these sessions.
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According to the adult spirits who cared for them, Leila and Frankie were happily growing up in Summerland just as they would have at home: “Your children live for you here and love you deeply.”
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