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Mom's Visit.

James
March 2026
Rockford, Illinois

So, shortly after my mother had passed. Like maybe a week, two at most, we had a "Celebration" of life at a family members house, well. After we said our goodbyes to everyone my wife and I were on our 3 hour drive back home from Germantown IL. I'd say 30 minutes into the drive, I smell smoke. That unique smell of cigarettes, you cant mistake it....Well, then we hear a soft whoosh of wind like a window is down now mind you my wife's car has automatic windows you can lower the back windows from the drivers seat, but not the passengers seat. Oddly the back passenger window directly behind me was suddenly a jar, I breifly smelled more powerful cigarette smoke, the smell lingered for roughly 5 minutes if that. Then it fades away, we shut the window, and spoke breifly of how mom would always sit behind me and it certainly smelled like her brand if cigarettes. To this day, I still believe it was her there is no other explanation how that window got open, but even if there was. Where you smell cigarettes smoke inside a moving car on the highway? You wouldn't. To this day....I sometimes feel a presence in that car not dark or anyrhing, just something saying "Hey, I'm still with you" maybe it comforts me to know, humans do go somewhere after this. Where that is? Who knows. You want my theory? Maybe we can choose to stay and watch over those we love, they claim the soul is energy. And if you know anything about energy, it's eternal. Thanks for reading.

James
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