Silvianne was a tarot card reader—she’d also held jobs in corporate healthcare, waitressing, retail, acupuncture, and catering—and she came to see the chain of events that put her in her van as divine influence, the goddess setting her on a gypsy path. (On her blog, Silvianne Wanders, she also characterized the transition like this: “A not-quite-retirement-age baby boomer gives up her sticks ’n bricks former miner’s cabin, her three part-time jobs, and her attachment to any illusion of security this tattered remnant of the American Dream might still bring to her tortured soul. The goal: to hit
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