Imaginary Friend?
When I was just a little girl
of
about
2 or 3 my family and I lived in a very
large old farmhouse. Being an
only
child I usually played alone, or so my
parents thought. My only
friend at
the time was a woman of somewhere in her
late 20's or early 30's. She
dressed
very old fashioned probably in the type
of dress you would see in the
early
1800s. She played games like hide and
seek with me but also taught
me
"manners".
My parents never saw her when we
would play together but, she
was
always there. There was also a man whom was
about the same age as Rebecca
(the
woman) and he seemed very close to her (a
brother or husband perhaps)
but he
was not nearly as friendly as her, in fact
he seemed rather cold. I
always
thought
of them as a lonely child's imaginary
friends until talking recently
to
my father. Who upon being reminded of the
subject of that old house (we
have
since moved) told me of dreams he had of a
young woman dressed exactly
the
same
as I remember Rebecca dressing. After
researching the history of the
house
we found that the house had in fact been
built by a young couple named
James
and Rebecca Thomas sometime in the early
1800s. I truly believe that
her
presence
is still watching over me to this
day.
SUBMITTED BY: Patricia D.