My mom died a few days after my 15th birthday. I still have very VERY vivid dreams about her almost 15 years later. In fact, I had one last night. We talk, and I tell her about how I wish that she was alive so that we could have a real relationship. She listens very kindly, has a few words of advice, and then leaves and I wake up. They are so unbelievably real... I don't believe in anything religious or afterlife or anything like that, but those dreams leave me knowing that somehow she still loves me.

We are ALL going to be a-ok!