I would like to tell you about the first time I had a visit from my Guardian Angel. It was something extraordinary that made a lasting impression on me for the rest of my life.  But before I can tell you about that, I need to give you some background information so that you will understand what was happening and what brought on this angelic visit.

        I was twenty-two years old, living in San Francisco, having moved up there from Los Angeles only a few months before.  I did not have any family in San Francisco, although in a short time I did make some friends and started dating.  The reason I moved up to San Francisco was mostly because I was somewhat emotionally unstable, and just had this `urge’ to get away.  Too often, when I was young, I used to let my `urges’ lead me around by the nose. 

        A short time before, my sister, a friend, and myself had visited up there from Los Angeles for a few days, and fell in love with the city.  My friend, who was from Montreal, Quebec, and I had decided to move there.  She never did, but I packed up and made the big move.  In no time, I found a job as a legal secretary, and later, with two young women I befriended, rented an apartment. 

        Not long afterward, I ran into trouble with my teeth.  I had a mouthful of cavities, a number of which needed root canal work.  More than one dentist told me of the many problems going on with my teeth and how costly it was going to be to fix them.  At one point, an eye tooth in my upper jaw became badly infected, so badly infected that it caused the whole side of my face to swell up.  I couldn’t chew anything, was in a lot of pain, and lost time from work. I recall that the dentist said he could not work on the tooth until the pus had drained, so I had to wait for a few very uncomfortable days before going back to see him. 

        When finally I was back in the dentist chair, it was decided that it would be simply cheaper to pull out all the molars in my upper jaw since I did not have the funds to pay for the expensive root canals and caps needed.  I was devastated.  I hated the thought of losing all those teeth.  Also, some teeth from the lower jaw were to be pulled, too, but not nearly as many as in the upper jaw.