My mom died from lung cancer a few days after my 15th birthday. I had been a complete pain in the *** as an adolescent, and she was a really nice mom, so needless to say I do live with some guilt. However, every once in a while, I will have a dream where she COMES BACK and... it's real. It's really really real. We talk, I fill her in on my life, I ask her about her life (since I was too young and dumb to realize why it's important to know your parents), I ask her what she had been doing since she died... and always when it gets to the point where I ask her if she will stay or promise to come back to visit me, the dream is over.

But it doesn't FEEL over! I always spend the rest of the day feeling like she is with me. I feel it right now, in fact (she says to say hi - lol!). I am not religious, don't really believe in any kind of afterlife, and don't even really see where the comfort is in believing in those things, yet... I tell you, it was REAL! Even borders on creepy, but for me, it is always extremely comforting when it happens.

Love,
LMo and Mom LMo