From fleeing the Soviet Union to a successful life Israel and then to San Francisco with equal success as a mortgage broker and founder of Pacific Bay Financial Company, Manny Kagan has not missed a beat of his own life. Rather, he has directed it step by step and had the courage to follow his instincts all the while paying close attention to the wisdom of his wife. Ask him why she told him this or that and he responds with a laugh and says quite simply, “Because she is smart.” Although he is a mortgage broker, religious teacher, photographer, animal lover (he is his dog’s best friend), and has some other arcane abilities, there is more. He writes daily and now has published two books; his 42 Encounters in San Francisco and 42 Encounters with Dog Lovers are works born of love. Why “42” remains a mystery.
Although Manny has not yet written love letters that he mails, he has decided on two of them. And, he is no stranger to the concept of love letters. Listen to what he did with a letter he long ago wrote to his father. You can bet that, just like Manny himself, it was far from ordinary.