Award-winning author Gayle Forman shares her experience of losing four close friends in a car accident and the emotional journey that followed. As a rational, agnostic, Jewish person, she grapples with the sudden absence of her friends and the lack of spiritual guidance in navigating grief.
After four of her close friends died suddenly in a tragic accident, author Gayle Forman still felt their presence. Here, she reflects on that journeyAward-winning author and journalist Gayle Forman has written several bestselling novels for young adults, including the Just One Series,"I Was Here,""Where She Went""After Life" and the #1 New York Times bestseller"If I Stay." For adults, she's the author of"Leave Me,""I Have Lost My Way.
In the dream, as my friend calmly folded and boxed clothing as if for a move, she told me about the accident. They had never seen the car coming. She had felt no pain. Also, there was no afterlife. But then she let me hold the little boy in my lap, so I could nuzzle his blond head as I had so many times before. In the dream, I began crying, wetting his curls with my tears. I woke up with tears streaming down my face.
The psychological reasoning for this is pretty obvious: a one-two punch of suggestibility and wish fulfillment. We wanted to see him in that moment, and so we did. Then, as soon as one of us vocalized feeling this “presence," the other one felt it, too. But a more spiritual interpretation might be that we encountered a soul in transition, or perhaps a guardian angel, or even a curious wanderlusting stowaway ghost.
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