22) I remember the last two weeks a sort of calm came over her. I’ve done some reading on this since, and that’s a fairly common occurrence when a person is reaching out towards death. From what I gather, it seems people accept their life for what it’s been and are willing to go to whatever is coming next, but that wasn’t what was so disturbing. She started wearing a necklace, this thinly braided, gold chain with a charm. The charm was a cross, which sounds harmless enough, but my mom wore it upside down. Come to think of it, that’s how it was designed.
23) No. I’d never seen it before. I asked her where she got it, and I know this sounds strange, but she told me it was a gift from the parallel side.
24) That’s right, the parallel side.
25) No. When I tried to get more out of her sh
