Originally Posted by AKaeTrue
When I was a teenager, I had a friend that blew up in a car.
75% of his body was graphed with pig skin because his was gone.
He lived and healed without a scar.
After his accident, he started talking about unusual things that he
experienced and places he visited while in a coma.
We all loved him, so we let him tell his bizarre stories.
He told us that he was allowed to make a complete recovery without scars
and come back to visit with friends and family,
but that he was going to die when he was 21 because he was needed for an important job.
He said that after his job was complete, he would stay on the other side until he was reborn - I would be his aunt and my sister would be his mother.
During this waiting period, he would be able to let his presents be know to us.
As the years went by, he would pin point specific things for me to remember so that I would know when he was visiting after he was gone.
Like a good friend, I said OK, but didn't actually believe him.
It was pretty mysterious how he came out of his accident w/o any scars,
so I use to call him a pretty boy, and he would always reply with "yeah, but I'd make an ugly bride, remember that."
One month after his 21st b-day, he was visiting me,
told me it would be the last time I'd see him until he was reborn in X amount of years.
He told me to keep checking the obituaries for all the information about the funeral.
I told him that I wasn't going to look in the obituaries and that he better not
do anything to hurt himself.
He left that day and my last thoughts were that,
over the years, I have done everything possible to assure him that he would
be OK and that I'd see him again.
The following month, I moved out of state for a few years.
I packed most everything up and put it in storage.
When I returned to my home town, I bought a house and was unpacking.
I used a box to put all the used newspaper in so that I could use them for arts , crafts, etc.
Two more years pass...
One day, I decided to Polish my brass stuff, so I went into the old newspaper box and pulled out a scrap.
I worked on polishing my brass stuff for days between running my household.
One day, while tying my sons shoes, I glanced over to where my project was,
part of the news paper was hanging over the table,
I saw a picture and thought to myself "thats an ugly bride"...
Immediately, I knew...I grabbed the paper to take a closer look, it was not the wedding section,
it was the obituaries from the month I moved 6 years earlier and that was my friend!
The stain from the brass Polish made an arrow pointing to his obituary.
I'm not fully over this considering I started to see the signs he told me to watch out for since I saw the obituary.
I'm left to believe that his job was finished and now he's waiting to be reborn because he said he would make his presence known during that time (which is now).
My sister has been trying to conceive for several years, however it has been unsuccessful.
Her fertility doctor predicts that she will be done with treatments and ready for IVF next year - which is the exact year our friend said he would be reborn.
He is often in her dreams telling her that everything will be OK and I see the signs he told me to watch out for almost everyday.
It's strange.
There is so much more, but you get the point.