Looks like where I live minus the green grass, green shrubs…ok, it’s not like it. 
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Heaven, my early childhood was in a place similar to this.
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@mattm
Good for you and right on! While CT is a beautiful state as far as geography and scenery, their politics have fallen of the deep left end so I can certainly understand why you would want to move. WV is a beautiful state as well. Mountains, rivers, trees, less densely populated. Good move on your part! 
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Good move! I just went to SC to visit my cousin and was astounded at the connections I had there and never knew! I’m a CT refugee in FL now.
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I’ve got a cousin in WV. He is a veterinarian [Sid] To find the right one, ask if he has family in southern Nevada. He is a staunch conservative, and he also has a law degree.
Dan
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You’d have been welcome in Tennessee, Been living here for going on 51 years.
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I’ll be visiting Barry54 more now that I’m only 10 hours away instead of 19, with no enemy territory to go through. Just got off the phone with him, think I’m going to get him up to WV as well.
What area you in? Barry is south of Nashville, small town kind of near Cookeville.
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Sorry for your loss.
Mike
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@MikeG43X Welcome to our community, we are glad to have you here. 
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Thank you, Mikegoodchoice4cc.
At the new house today, got a safe coming…any day now lol…
New place reminds me of my son at the moment, mre’s and a mattress on the floor…and I’m getting blurry… glad for the time we had and 2 really mind blowing dreams which let me know both he and my dad are doing well. Just miss him for now.
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Hello and welcome @MikeG43X
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I’m glad to hear that you’re doing well. It’s funny that you mention loosing your son and having a dream about him. I lost my mom two years ago and had a dream about her Saturday morning. She and I were riding in a car together going somewhere and she was laughing and having a great time. I guess it was her way of telling me she is fine.
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We need those dreams. I had mentioned mine I believe, but I’ve been known to repeat myself 
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First dream, my living room in CT, super detailed and realistic. There’s an aura of energy in a chair, pulsing, kind of electrical. I’m wondering what the heck this is. When I realized it was my dad I got bombarded with warmth and love (I’m a wasp, we don’t do warmth and love…my how I’ve changed). A moment later my son comes into the room from the hallway, looks good, happy, crisp shirt. I start to say “you’re not supposed to be here” but woke up before I got finished. I felt bad, it wasn’t like I didn’t want him there, and I wanted so much to continue the dream to let him know I love him and will always be proud of him. My wife wisely mentioned that maybe I was the one who wasn’t supposed to be there, and a few days later I realized I got to witness my dad coming for my son too bring him to heaven. I was pretty much agnostic up until now. That has surely changed.
About 2 months later, second dream. I’m in my motorhome, feel faint, collapse on the floor, losing my vision, time to die. My son, about 5-6 years old, is standing on the driver’s seat steering, looks at me, smiles and lets me know we’re okay.
I am down at the WV house at the moment dealing with trying to get a safe delivered (society has never been so inept)and get back to CT to winterize things before the freeze. Shot one of Aaron’s AR’s and AK at a free to the public range a town away (God I love this state) then said the longest prayer I ever said on the platform near the top of Seneca Rocks.
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Glad to hear you are doing well my Friend.
Dreams like this are Angels way of saying
" I’m OK Dad"
“I’m OK Son” (Mike G43X)
and anyone who suffered a Loss of family…
My Buddy (the dog) came to me and was snuggling Lil Wanda (my Kat)
When I turned on the light my cat had a ‘What the hell was that?’ look on her face and her cheek was wet!
(No Lie here folks)… dam nest thing
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I’ve been a believer in Jesus Christ my savior for many years. I’ve seen so many other people who have died and I always wondered how did I survive that situation. It dawned on me one day many years ago that I have a purpose in this life and as long as I keep striving towards it Jesus will watches over me. My neighbor jokes with me, he says as long as I keep my sweet wife alive, I’ll stay alive.
I have a T-shirt that says Jesus is my savior and guns are just a backup.
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The posts of the dreams got me remembering. I’m a firm believer in God and heaven.
I lost my son when he was 7 years old. He’d been born with major health issues, and they ravaged his poor little body until he finally died of an awful seizure. Not long after he died, he came to me in a dream. He was a beautiful, healthy 20 year old, dressed in a jean jacket. In my dream, he had been messing around on a dirt bike and just crashed. That was the moment I came into the dream. He stood up, tall and healthy, and said, “It’s okay Dad. I’m all right.” That was the last time I’ve seen him, about 20 years ago now, but I know he’s well, and I’ll see him again.
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That’s beautiful and I believe you’re right.
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My God, I’ve been crying since I wrote that, it just made the memory so real again. I’ve hardly ever shared that with anyone, so it felt really wierd to write it down for everyone to see.
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I’m feeling it, Joseph. It’s deep. Hard putting into words on the Internet, but I think I know what you’re going through. I have found a bond with a few friends, one who lost a son, one a dad prematurely due to grief over losing his mom, since losing my son. It changes everything. My friend lost his son in 2019, says you never get over it. I guess you’re proof of that.
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I really don’t think you ever do get over it, you just put it somewhere where you can carry it with you for the rest of your life in a way that allows for peace. There’s nothing anyone can ever say or do, it just sucks, and you find blessings knowing that you’ll reunite someday, and they’re leading your way to God. They went on ahead, to make way for the ones they love. They’re our saints.
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