Potato-Chip Baby
Lost?
I have a friend who is 15-years old. Her family has 'adopted' me and I them. I wil call her 'Julie.'
Julie was gone. I was at her mother's house. She went somewhere, didn't tell anyone and I don't know how long she'd been gone.
It must have been a long time because it was to the point where we all thought she'd been ubducted and killed. There was absolutly no trace of her.
I was at her mother's house with many of her friends coming and going. We were all sad and crying. I was sitting with her boyfriend who was very upset.
We had already gone into town (her mom lived out in the country in my dream) and looked and looked for her. I went to a restaurant to ask about her. It was raining and it was night when I was driving back to her mother's house. I remember feeling that the weather matched my mood and the situation perfectly.
We were all devastated. Didn't know what to do next. One of her friends stopped by and got out of the car. I thought it was Julie and even yelled to everyone, "She's here!! She's back!!" But I quickly realized it was not her and we all seemed to sink deeper into distress.
And then Julie came home.
I felt this almost tangible feeling of relief. All I could do was grab her and hold her and cry. I had never felt such anguish and now I had never felt such joy.
She had gone to the movies with two boys. They suggested they all go to California. So they left. She didn't call, didn't let us know if she was OK. Nothing. I was so mad, and so happy she had returned, at the same time.
This dream made me realize how much I really love 'Julie,' as if she were my own daughter. How I would do anything to keep her safe, and at the same time, I know she is reaching the point in her life where she will me making her own decisions.
And maybe the dream is symbolic of something I think I have lost forever, but that isn't really lost at all.
I think the idea of the dream came from a story a friend of mine told me recently. She said that when she was in high school, during her senior year, she was sitting on the front stoop of her apartment when her friends pulled up in their car.
They told her "Phish" was on the east coast, on their last tour and they were missing it. So, she got in the car and they went to the east coast and followed Phish around. She didn't call her parents until she'd been gone a week.
