“What do you mean, you really disappeared?”<\/p>\n
“Haven’t you learned anything dear? You keep hopping from one reality to another, but you never stop to think it through.”<\/p>\n
“Think what<\/i> through?”<\/p>\n
“Charlotte, you have the wonderful ability to be completely in whatever reality you are in. That truly is a marvelous thing. But not everybody is as talented as you are.”<\/p>\n
“I don’t understand.” Charlotte looked genuinely confused.<\/p>\n
“Let me try,” said Charlotte’s dad. “What do you think a ghost is?”<\/p>\n
“The spirit of a dead person?”<\/p>\n
“We prefer ‘formerly living’,” Sheldon interjected.<\/p>\n
“Sorry, no offense,” Charlotte said contritely.<\/p>\n
“None taken.”<\/p>\n
“But that’s not quite the whole of it,” Charlotte’s dad continued. “A ghost is a person who is alive in the wrong reality. A kind of misplaced person, you might say.”<\/p>\n
“I’m in the wrong reality?” Sheldon asked wonderingly.<\/p>\n
“Well yes, but not completely,” Charlotte’s mom explained. “That’s the problem, young man. Our Charlotte attracts that sort of thing.”<\/p>\n
“Wait,” Charlotte said, “Mom, is that what happened to you and dad when you disappeared? You went to the wrong reality?”<\/p>\n
“Well yes, pumpkin, that sort of thing has been happening to us for a long time. It hasn’t been easy being your parents.”<\/p>\n
“You mean, this is all my fault?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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