Chapter 144

I also had a mantra that worked for me. “Anything that happens before I wake is a dream.” I said that to myself every time my head hit the pillow, several times, especially when I rolled to my right side. I knew that was my sleeping position. Once there, I would drift off soon. The words and thought often followed me into slumber, now. Even if I didn’t recall every detail of a dream when awake, I sometimes did remember reciting the sentence in my mind while in one.

This, however, hopefully wasn’t that. I also now knew Jefferson came to me in the most vivid way possible when my mind was clear and restful. I believed it. That didn’t happen often. The drugs would have made it possible.

“Last I recall, I was going into surgery. Now, I’m here, hundreds of miles and hundreds of years from where that’s happening, preparing to perform my very first wedding.”