Spirit of Gettysburg: Soulmates Across Time

Chapter 28

Her voice was a shrug. "You're real. I'm glad they were wrong about you. They said you were bad. I didn't believe them. You were consistently kind to me."

"Oui."

She pressed the hollow of her throat and felt her rapid heartbeat.

"The evil genie has given us a second chance and you have been rewarded for keeping the faith throughout many struggles in your present lifetime."

Huh, once more he circled back to her faith. He knew her spiritual struggles, how often she questioned God, how often she wanted to reject HIM but stayed true and walked with faith. She had a flash of insight.

She must keep that faith at all costs and she must help him regain his. "Okay, I trust you and God."

She breathed out a flurry of words. "It's true. We're deeply connected. You were there for me. You comforted me and proclaimed your love during my difficulties."

Her childhood flashed before her mind's eye. She saw the plump child locked in the apartment on weekends while her anorexic, alcoholic mother partied with her latest druggie boyfriend.

She recalled the Christmas holidays, her mother too hung over to cook dinner or rise on Christmas Day but not too drunk to pick fights with her. Her mother stayed drunk from December twenty-third through January first, whiskey bottles and overflowing ashtrays cluttering the tiny apartment.

Other unhappy memories of her high school and college days surfaced. Those of a depressed, straight A student, the smart, spiritual, geeky outsider in high school and at Harvard at odds with the anti-God, anti-America, liberal agenda of the teachers, professors and students. Those awkward, introverted, lonely teenage and college years scarred her psyche. God was her rock and solace then as now. She was the poor girl with psychic ability, faith and old-fashioned values among the cynical, radical, spoiled, amoral and wealthy elite.

She recalled the dateless years until she met Vincent. Her breathing spiked up before she calmed it down. She'd trained him at the Dupont Circle Fitness Center until his physique hardened tighter than an Olympic athlete. She tasted sour bile in her mouth and remembered their first meeting. He was handsome and charming, dazzling her with his attention. Starved for affection, discounting her intuition, she fell for his urbanity and charisma.

He was outwardly handsome, inwardly ugly. Her intuition screamed stay away he's rotten, but dismissing the red flags she stayed star struck for months until she acknowledged his cruel, shallow, real character and dumped him. He was a debauched libertine without limits and his actions finally sickened her soul. She angrily shook her head trying to dislodge the memories.

The ghost rubbed her shoulder. "You have done enough introspection for tonight. We both are finished with unhappy remembrances."

His gentleness quieted her turbulent memories and healed old spiritual wounds. For once she was oblivious to her messy hair. She forgot Vincent's and her mother's needling about her buttoned up, frumpy appearance, absent-minded disorganization, germ phobia and obsession with cleanliness. Maureen focused on the ghost smiling at her.

He raised her chin up. "There, there, we have experienced horrific events but I will show you our happy memories. We have them, I promise you. I will show you a little of our happiness together before war destroyed it. We will access this information by energy transference. I know you are familiar with energy work."

She was surprised. Energy transference and energy work? He has learned the lingo; let's see if he can apply it.

As if reading her thoughts, he winked at her. "Please close your eyes."

"Okay, guide me and show me in your mind. I'll relax." Meditating on Wildrose Hill, she closed her eyes and asked God's help to bring her there.

"I'm ready." Her voice sounded strained. "I'll concentrate. She willed visions to appear.

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