In my dad’s second dream visit he handed me an $80 bill and
a $2 bill. A friend and I decided it could mean Don’t worry about dying young; you’ll live to be 82. (People whose
parent died young often worry about doing the same.) That was reassuring at the
time, but the older me sometimes worries about self-fulfilling prophesies.
I can understand worrying. I personally don't think the $82 meant anything, other than your father was being generous.
ReplyDeleteThat is an excellent thought, Mali. I guarantee I will think of it many times over the next seven years. Maybe he was paying me back all the money I lost to him over decades of playing cribbage and honeymoon bridge. And bowling.
DeleteI think the dream meant he was printing his own money since I don't think 80 dollar bills exist.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Dona. I just went and fell down the rabbit hole into Wikipedia about the significance of 82. That was fun! I'm suggesting that he's referencing Messier 82, a starburst galaxy. Or perhaps he likes happy numbers (which has a definition that loses me entirely but does include a Doctor Who reference, which makes ME happy). Or he just finished reading Kurt Vonnegut's novel Hocus Pocus.
ReplyDeleteI'm going with the Kurt Vonnegut thing.
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