I started having clear dreams about my mother around this time and they felt different from normal dreams because they were so clear and detailed and when I woke up I could remember every word she'd said.

In the dreams we'd be sitting in the kitchen of my childhood home and she'd pour tea and talk to me about things that were happening now even though she'd been dead for decades.

"The peace is holding" she told me in one dream "Better than I ever hoped it would."

"But there are still ...