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unacceptable. Which meant that I was dead. Dead.

How could such a shattering revelation leave me so incredibly apathetic? I should have been
screaming with terror. Instead, I could only stare at the plaque, at my name, at the year of my
birth and the year of my death.

Slowly, an obsession started gathering in my mind. / was down there? Me? My body? Then I possessed
the power to prove it all beyond a doubt. I could travel down there, see my corpse. Memory
flickered. You can see inside it if you try. Where had I heard those words? I could see inside
what ?

Knowledge came. I could descend and look inside the casket. I could see myself and prove that I


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was dead. I felt my body easing forward, downward.

"Mom?"

I looked around in startlement. Richard was approaching with a thin, young man with dark hair.
"Mom, this is Perry," he said. "He's the one I told you about."

I stared incredulously at the young man.

He was looking at me.

"Your father is here, Richard," he said, calmly. "Sitting near the plaque with his name on it."

I struggled to my feet. "You can see me?" I asked. I was stunned by his words, his gaze directly
on me.

"He's saying something I can't make out," Perry said.

I looked at Arm, anxiety returning. / could communicate with her; let her know I still existed.

She was staring at the young man, her expression stricken. "Ann, believe him," I said. "Believe
him."

"He's speaking again," Perry told her. "To you now, Mrs. Nielsen."

Ann shuddered and looked at Richard, speaking his name imploringly.

"MomтАФ'' Richard looked uncomfortable and adamant at once. "тАФif Perry says that Dad is here, I
believe him. I've told you how heтАФ"

"Ann, I am here!" I cried.

"I know how you feel, Mrs. Nielsen," Perry interrupted Richard, "but take my word for it. I see