Interesting Wiseone, makes me want to tell a story my mom told me, although I feel a little sheepish about it. (IMG:
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My mom told me a few times about a dream she had before I was born. Actually it was before my older bro was born, too. She was at the beach, sun-bathing when these guys in red-robes came out of the sea and walked towards her (all dry I think, too). One of them had a bundle in his robe.
They said that she had been chosen to carry a very special gift, or something to that effect. And that this gift came very far way. When she asked what it was, the dude with the bundle pulled this monkey out of his robe. (IMG:
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She freaked out and refused the "gift", saying that she was too busy with her career to deal with such a thing. The one guy who had held the monkey, snapped his fingers or the like, and it came to him and transformed into a young blonde-haired child that looked exactly like me when I was five years old (as a side note- my bro had black hair). They then said she had no choice, that she had been chosen, and that the boy had a few lessons to be learned here (IMG:
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Anyway, I don't like to make any claims here (hence my sheepishess around this story, but I guess all of us come from far away in a sense). I'm only telling what she told me. But an interesting coincidence(?) I learned later is that I was born under the Chinese animal-sign of the monkey.