It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died. It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with that thought I could swear I heard Ami's voice. But I am not frightened. I am joyous. Joyous with realization. For I cannot help but think what a lucky person I am. Imagine that in all the eons of time, in all the possible universes of which Dara speaks, of all the stars in the heavens, Ami and I came together for one brief and shining sliver of time. I stop. I think. Supposing in the grand infinity of this universe two particles of life, Ami and me, swirl endlessly like grains of sand in the oceans of the world -- how much of a chance is there for these two particles, these two grains of sand, to collide, to rest briefly together.. at the same moment in time? That is what happened with Ami and me.. this miracle of chance. . Kathryn Lasky
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When Dara Shapiro's husband was dying, he asked her to take care of his child. She asked him why he thought she would be able to do that. He said that the chance of that was incredibly small. He had lived long enough to know this was true.

Dara knew, too, but she did not want him to die without knowing how important he was in the lives of her family and friends; she wanted him to live long enough to know how much he meant to them. So she wrote this poem for him, and it became his favorite poem of the ones she had written about him during his illness. When he died shortly after, Dara's husband gave her this honor: "It has been a week since Ami died and this morning I woke suddenly hours before dawn, indeed the same hour as when my mother died.

It was not a dream that woke me, but a thought. And with that thought I could swear I heard Ami's voice. But I am not frightened.

I am joyous."

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