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"Oh, how nice Tell her hi back And now that we’re done with the pleasantries, what’s going on?"

He drew in a deep breath "I used to see only ghosts, like shadows in the air But now I see everything I see people I see their clothes I see the dirt on their feet I see the blood in their hair"

I put a pal he’d been seeing I was a little surprised Sister Mary Elizabeth hadn’t called ain, , he blinked back ata solution A solution I would not have

"You see what I see," I said,the empathy I felt "You see the departed who are left on Earth, who haven’t crossed over It’s not like in the movies They aren’t here to scare you or hurt you"

He kept his eyes focused onI had better news

"They just want answers like you do They want to finish so that was left undone"

"Like unfinished business?" he asked

"Yes Who told you that?"

"My friends at school They think it’s cool I see dead people" He al about the Deaf community I always ad lot I’d ever come across It didn’t matter what else you had to deal with, blindness, es, fetal alcohol syndro with, if you were culturally Deaf, they accepted you as one of their own Even, apparently, if you had supernatural sight

"I think it’s pretty cool, too," I said

He looked down "It’s okay, I guess"

"But it can be scary"

"Yes"

"Just remember, they are exactly like us They were us, they’ve just crossed to another level of existence"

He furrowed his brows "So it’s like they’re still alive?"

"Yes, very much so They just don’t have their physical bodies anyaze slid past me "I didn’t think of it that way" I let him absorb that information a o to heaven but they can’t find you"

I shook my head "The way I understand it, they can see me from anywhere in the world"

His eyes rounded "Even if they’re in China?"

"Even if they’re in China," I said

"How? There’s a whole planet between you and theh theht, so I have no idea how they do"