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I‘ve been reading The Bonesetter’s Daughter by Amy Tam.  Excellent book, excellent writer, I love Amy Tam.  This book is phenomenal; however, I think I may have read a bit too much last night, or for too long.  In the book, there’s a Chinese mother and daughter, the daughter, Ruth is reading her mother’s journal and writings about her mother (Ruth’s grandmother) and they believed that their dead relatives had put a curse on their family.  They also tell stories of talking to the dead and what the dead have told them to do or not do regarding the mysterious “curse.”

Last night, I dreamed that my grandmother, now dead for nearly 7 years, had come back to visit me in the flesh for a short period of time.  There was one thing I asked her while she was visiting me:  ”Can you hear me when I talk to you aloud?”  She told me that only sometimes could she hear me.  She went on to say that now that she’s been dead for several years, she’s “getting farther and farther away, and can’t hear me as good or as often now.”

This is all so strange to me, and I can’t help but to wonder if there’s any reasoning to it.