Dreaming of the Dead

Dreaming of the Dead: Personal Stories of Comfort and Hope © 2012 by Marilou TraskCurtin. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever, including Internet usage, without written permission from Llewellyn Publications, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

First Edition First Printing, 2012 Book design by Donna Burch Cover art © Wooden sign: iStockphoto.com/Marcus Lindström Oval picture frame: iStockphoto.com/Rouzes Vintage pictures with black corners: iStockphoto.com/subjug Floral background: iStockphoto.com/Peter Zelei Cover design by Adrienne Zimiga Interior photos provided by the author. Photo in oval picture frame is of author and her grandmother at a cemetery in 1955.

Llewellyn Publications is a registered trademark of Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Trask-Curtin, Marilou, 1951– Dreaming of the dead : personal stories of comfort and hope / Marilou TraskCurtin. — 1st ed. p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-7387-3191-9 1. Spiritualism. 2. Dreams—Miscellanea. 3. Death—Miscellanea. I. Title.

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