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.

visibility, and spread the dress out with the lining facing up.

I located the area where I had felt the irregularity—in the side seam about six inches below the armhole, in a place where no one would notice a slight thickening during normal wear.

I took a deep, steadying breath, picked up the scissors with trembling fingers, and carefully worked the continue reading …