she awoke with the keenest sensation that her father had visited her during the night....
he had died over six years ago...
and yet she was 100% certain that she'd had a lengthy conversation with him
only last night...
he was having a party with the wife and the little son he'd lost in Auschwitz....
somewhere above the clouds...
and they were celebrating something...
she supposed it was a celebration of REUNION...
she sensed that her dad had forgotten his earthly family entirely...
forgotten HER...
she felt betrayed,,
AND yet she somehow understood....
as she stretched and yawned and became fully awake ....
she suddenly remembered with a start.....
that today was DECEMBER 31st....
her father's birthday....
and in that moment...
she realized beyond the shadow of a doubt
that he had come to earth in order to let her know that
HE WAS STILL HERE......watching...
