The Grief Experts say I should go ahead and keep talking about my aunt, because it validates that she's still part of my life.
I'm a little afraid everyone around me is getting a bit bored with that schtick, though. I'm pretty sure I've scared off any readers I ever had, so I suppose I can validate here.
The Grief Experts also say I can talk to my aunt, or write her letters. As if I wasn't crazy enough, the Grief Experts think I oughta be crazier, and talk to dead people.
That reminds me.
My aunt had a Ouija board. That probably doesn't sound like a big deal, but it is a bit incongrous to find a Ouija board in a house full of bibles, rosaries, flasks of holy water, crucifixes, and all that other catholicia.
Actually, when we moved my aunt into the senior apartment a few years ago, my cousin and I joked about the Ouija board, but apparently we neglected to ask my aunt why the heck she had it in the first place.
Anyway, after the funeral, we were trying to figure out where my aunt had stashed some heirloom, and somebody said "Well, here's the Ouija board...we can try asking her."
I ended up with the Ouija board. I have zero belief in them, but by last week I was taking every other thing left in her apartment, so I took that, too. Once I got it home I realized it wasn't the Parker Brothers version I always saw at slumber parties, it is a gen-u-ine William Fuld Ouija board. From what I found on the internet, it looks like it's from the '30's or '40's. I was hoping I'd found my fortune, but even old Ouija boards are a dime a dozen on eBay. You can ask more if they're haunted, though. I don't think mine is haunted, unless maybe...maybe the Ouija board is why I'm having nightmares...
Told you: I'm cracking up.
Posted by Nic at August 24, 2006 05:48 PM | TrackBackI will not allow a Ouija board in our house because of an experience I had in my late teens/early 20's. We set it up so that nobody but me would know the answer to a question, and I wasn't on the board. The sucker gave the correct answer and *then* it got freaking scary.
I believe in them.
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