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.

the trembling wouldn’t stop.

It was only a dream, I told myself firmly. Just a nightmare brought on by pre-birthday anxiety.

But why had it felt so terrifyingly real?

I carefully slipped out of bed, moving with exaggerated caution to avoid waking Mark, and walked on unsteady legs toward the kitchen. My hands shook as I filled a glass with water from the continue reading …