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SDPC Introduction Valerie metaphor grief hospital death

October 10, 1984. Both of us had jobs at the large hospital in my home town of Sayre, Pa., eighteen miles southeast of Elmira, N.Y. The setting and the buildings weren’t like those of the “real” hospital in Sayre, though. It was a gorgeous summer day. Jane was much younger than she’d been when she died at the age of fifty-five. She still had her long jet-black hair, slim active figure and exuberant personality. I could have been my own age, sixty-five. We relaxed upon a large, sloping, very green lawn beside a brick hospital building that was several stories high. Then with great surprise I saw that on top of the near end of the building there sat an old, flat-sided, two-story house with steep roofs, weathered a drab gray and with all of its windows shuttered. Caught in one shutter was a filmy pink garment like a negligee, fluttering in the breeze. Curiously, Jane and I stared up at the house perched so incongruously there, and we talked about trying to get up into it to see what it was like inside.

I had this meeting with Jane, partially wrapped as it was in dream elements, thirty-five days after she had died. The following is revised from my dream notebook.

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 5 enzymes plane saucers Rob mental

[...] Jane and I were both surprised at the amount of material delivered in forty-five minutes; the time seemed to fly. [...]

SDPC Part Two: Chapter 9 clock sensation Miss Rob twenty

[...] Within any given five minutes of clock time, for example, you may find an hour of resting which is independent of clock time.