The Night Before My Birthday, My Late Father Came to Me in a Dream and Said, “Don’t Wear the Green Dress.” The Next Morning, I Saw It — and Realized He’d Been Right to Warn Me.

but rarely extravagant or sentimental.

And now this—such attention, such care, such obvious effort.

Though there had been something slightly odd about his insistence, a quality to his voice that I couldn’t quite identify.

“You absolutely must wear this dress,” he had repeated several times over the past two weeks, his tone growing more emphatic each time.continue reading …