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Taking photos at a grave felt wrong, but she asked\u2014so their son would have something one day. She laid a blanket with their wedding photo. The baby had slept the whole trip, but the second his carrier touched the ground near his dad\u2019s grave, he burst out laughing. A deep, joyful laugh.<\/p>\n
Tears streamed down her face. \u201cHe\u2019s never laughed like that before,\u201d she whispered. I said maybe babies sense things we\u2019ve forgotten. She clung to him, telling the stone how she\u2019d talked to his dad every night, how the baby would always kick in reply.<\/p>\n
Strange things followed\u2014waking at the same time every night, reacting only to his dad\u2019s photo, their wedding song playing randomly. Even I couldn\u2019t explain what I saw. A chaplain said, \u201cLove lingers to help us heal.\u201d<\/p>\n
One night, the baby screamed at nothing. That same night, she dreamed her husband said, \u201cYou\u2019re strong now.\u201d<\/em> After that, it all stopped. Silence returned.<\/p>\n She slowly rebuilt her life. Months later, she found a hidden letter from her husband: \u201cTell our baby hi.\u201d<\/em> She framed it.<\/p>\n When their son was four, he asked, \u201cWhere\u2019s my daddy?\u201d She pointed to the grave and said, \u201cHe\u2019s always with you.\u201d Maybe grief opens a door. Maybe love never really leaves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Taking photos at a grave felt wrong, but she asked\u2014so their son would have something one day. She laid a blanket with their wedding photo. The baby had slept the whole trip, but the second his carrier touched the ground near his dad\u2019s grave, he burst out laughing. A deep, joyful laugh. Tears …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5453,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5451\/revisions\/5453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifevibesever.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The boy smiled. \u201cI know. He talks to me sometimes.\u201d<\/p>\n