Hello - My Name is Anthony

Ever since Shirley Short can remember, she has been gifted. Not a psychic or a prophet, but a Listener. She started hearing spirits at a young age but did not know what to do for a long time. Now she has a radio show called The Listener, where spirit speaks through her. Still, there has not been a day in her life that she has not known God. One day a New York City musician called in to Shirley's Texas radio station, and she felt he was a gift from God, so she gave him a whole hour. She later found out that on the day she had Tony on her radio show he was sick in bed and dying. He had stage four cancer and had lost one of his lungs so he couldn't normally speak. The people with him in his bedroom were shocked that he talked with her for so long. Doctors had told him he was dying, but he lived six more weeks after the program aired. When he passed, Shirley traveled to New York City to see his family at the church service. The two hundred fifty people who attended thanked her, and told her that she had given him back to himself for that short time during her show. Shirley was the only person born in 1944 with an Rh factor conflict and lived. Born in Mercy Hospital, doctors worked for three months to save her life. She now has eight grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. For 30 years she worked as a volunteer in the prison system. She is currently working on a book about her own life.