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go back to Seattle. Dora is in cloudy skies. I shall brighten them like the sun for her, and she for me. Ah, yes. You may not believe my story, Orfeo, but you can believe Dora is in Seattle, and that’s where I should be. I can hardly wait to go to her. I wonder, do you think she will be as happy as I think she will?” “No,” I answered him. “I believe she will be much happier than you think she will. If not, she will be the loser, not you. One thing you must bear in mind is that no matter how she takes it and no co. 1 1 a matter how you feel when you see her, no two people on earth have ever experienced any more poignant affection and love than Dora and you will be experiencing in that moment. Take her in your arms, Adam, and let come what may. Stay with her until she cries for joy. Then you will really know what it is to be one instead of two. Did not your hosts tell you of her straits, and how she longs a» to see you just once more?” “Yes, indeed, Orfeo. But I am in the process of waking from another world as yet, and I cannot recall at this moment if it was all real or if it was a prolonged dream,” he demurred. “Adam,” I said. “Do you not feel relieved in having told me your so-called dream? Was it not weighing upon you until you should tell someone who would understand? Do you not now feel 1 ato toed 1 1 awarwo, eoto4 pleasantly divested of a heavy burden? Well, J am sure you feel all these things. When the nectar fully wears off and when you feel secure in having deposited this story with me you will come face to face with the reality of it all. With many who have visions and dreams which make their life much more meaningful, we find that the vision or dream is but the conscious embodiment of many co. read ww c . wad . oda facts which had been forgotten until the vision wrested them from the buried storehouse of the subconscious. The vision and the dream then fade, going back into the vault whence they came. It is such a phase that you are in now. “You can rest assured,” I continued, “that I will put your story down in some form, and that I will tell the essentials of it as best I can. But to write it as a story just as you told 207 ADAM SAYS GOODBYE