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Now, in \u003ci\u003eLife with the Afterlife\u003c\/i\u003e, she shares the insight she has gleaned and how it has shaped her unique approach to interacting with the spirits of the dead and those who encounter them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom her earliest supernatural encounters as a child, through her years appearing on \u003ci\u003eGhost Hunters\u003c\/i\u003e and the creation of her company Strange Escapes, which offers paranormal excursions to some of America's most notoriously haunted destinations, and into her current work on The Travel Channel's \u003ci\u003eKindred Spirits\u003c\/i\u003e, this book is full of astonishing and deeply moving stories of Amy's efforts to better understand the dead but not yet departed. 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