Chapter 146

“We know plain as day what we are now, in 2019,” Patrick said. “In that world, I should say. We know the Goose who works at Cost-Mart at night and Patrick the pharmacist. We recognized being in the basement at the reenactment as it happened, making love on an inflatable mattress, and having pancakes on Valentine’s Day. We remember those. Just because we can’t as easily recall what we were in the far distant past or will be in the future, it doesn’t mean we haven’t lived that, too. That time thing Einstein spoke of, and the other worlds and realms science doesn’t know, but people who’ve been to them will always swear exist, you and I have seen some of that. Think of déjà vu. I’ve experienced it quite often.”

“Me, too.”

“Maybe we relive one existence over and over. ‘This moment…I’ve done this before. The phone will ring.’ And then, it does.”

“Yes. Déjà vu all over again.”