(10-04-2025, 12:58 PM)IAMTAT Wrote: Thank you for the kind words.
Interesting...and a possibility.
If so, however, what're the odds that the voice that was picked up said the EXACT same sentence as my very recently deceased mom's very last words to me...(and nothing else)?
I have to believe the odds would be astronomical.
Y'know...this (my last post) got me remembering something that may be important.
As mentioned, my mom lived in Florida and as she got older it became more difficult to look after herself (she was always very independent).
Last year, she moved in with my sister who lived in the same town.
Living in another state, I would call my mom usually every Sunday to check in, chat and update her on the rest of her family up north.
Our calls would always end the same way.
I would say: "I love you, Mom"...and she would always respond the same way with "I LOVE YOU TOO"...before hanging up.
Quick aside...my sister and I do not get along...and she is very jealous of and hateful towards me (a political thing).
Usually when I call mom, she makes herself scarce.
This LAST time...just days before my mom was rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery, went into a post-op coma and passed...we talked on the phone for a while...I ended by saying "I love you, Mom"...and she did NOT respond with "I LOVE YOU TOO", as she usually did.
There was a brief awkward silence...and I could hear my sister entering the room with her.
It was clear that mom did not want my sister to hear her say she loved me...because it would totally set her off.
I understood the situation going on there and said something like "Well, bye...I'll talk to you next week."
She died unexpectedly days later and that turned out to be the last time we would ever talk.
The voice saying: "I LOVE YOU TOO"...might have been out of regret for not having said it the last time.