{"id":3298,"date":"2015-10-03T06:42:27","date_gmt":"2015-10-03T06:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/?p=3298"},"modified":"2015-10-03T06:42:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-03T06:42:27","slug":"speaking-of-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eskimo.com\/~nanook\/2015\/10\/03\/speaking-of-die\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of Die…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 When I was a kid, I had a friend by the name of Jim Hepworth, first knew him in elementary school, then he moved away, and then some years later moved back into the neighborhood.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After school he went into the army.\u00a0 I had bad feelings about it.\u00a0 Later he returned but with the news that he had a grapefruit sized cancerous tumor in his stomach.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 He underwent chemotherapy and the tumor was highly responsive and was eliminated.\u00a0 However, they told him at the time there was about a 20% chance that the chemotherapy itself could induce a secondary cancer.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A couple of years later he developed lymphoma.\u00a0 He came and visited me and told me he expected to have about two weeks left to live and was going on a trip to say goodbye to friends he met while in the army.\u00a0 He did not return from the trip.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 However, before he left he told me if there was a way to contact me from after death he would.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After he died, I had a series of dreams.\u00a0 In these dreams he would come to the door of my apartment.\u00a0 I’d answer the door and ask him how could he be here as he was dead?\u00a0 He would tell me don’t worry about it, he was okay, and to just enjoy the time we had together.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The dreams had a reality to them that was very much like the precognitive dreams I have had which come as little snippets of time in the future that I know I will eventually relive.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 These dreams went on for several months and then in one dream he told me, this was the last time he could come to me, and it was.\u00a0 Never again did he appear in a dream.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At 56, I’ve lost much family and friends to death and never have any of them ever come back to me in a dream except for Jim.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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