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A Message from a Sage

Who makes this stuff up?
A Message from a Sage
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—03.31.2000—

I had a strange dream last night. A Chinese sage told me that my pillow would be stained one more time before I started seeing my next boyfriend. What? Stained pillow? Gross. Next boyfriend? Who makes this stuff up?

In the dream “staining a pillow,” apparently, meant marking significant events, so something like a wedding or a broken arm would be a stain on one’s pillow. My pillow had four marks on it. But “Next boyfriend?” What was that all about? I’m pretty sure I’m heterosexual. I looked at her askance and thought, “That can’t be right.” Was she mistaking me for someone else?