In the comments of my blog I briefly refer to the following story which I will now explain in detail.
One day a friend at work told me she was shocked to turn on the TV and see John Edward reading an old coworker of ours. We hadn't seen this girl in many years. She told me that our old friend's deceased Dad came through....and John knew to ask her if she had named her dog after an alcoholic beverage.
She had....the dog was named Jagermeister!!
That would also be a hit for anyone with a dog named Bud,Buddy,jack, Sierra,Bailey,Brandy,Captain,Hennessy,Cosmo,Stella,Miller,Rita,Sam and murphy to name a few.
So me, being the totally non-obsessive person that I am , decided to try and track down this old coworker because I wanted her to tell me herself what she thought about the reading. Took me a couple of days and quite a few phonecalls but I found her.
She totally believed JE was real and stressed the part about him asking if she named her dog after an alcoholic beverage...a unique, specific, unknowable, personal hit not thrown out to the entire studio audience.
She went on to tell me that she and her sisters (who were part of the reading) were disappointed that another big hit had been edited OUT of the show that aired on TV( for time purposes).
She told me that her Mom did not have a middle name.
Her Dad used to joke about it and told her Mom that HE would give her the middle name that she was missing.
That name was Rose.
And her Dad called her Mom Rose from then on.
So JE at one point of her reading says her Dad wants to mention....Rose!
Or it was something very similar to that...I can't remember exactly if my friend said JE said that or say hi to Rose or the like.
But he definitely said the name Rose to them and that it was related to her Dad.
And yes, while I know and acknowledge my memory of the specifics of my old coworker's reading elude me...the huge hits...dog being named after an alcoholic beverage..and the name Rose being connected to her Dad... are clear as day.
My old friend insisted there was NO way, no clues given to JE that could have enabled him to know these things other than he was indeed communicating with their deceased Dad.
As an aside, my old friend also told me that even though the reading was amazing, she and her sisters were disappointed that their deceased sister did not come through. Right after the event (NYC) my friend and her other sisters went out to eat and discuss what had just happened. There was a debate about which restaurant to go to but they finally all agreed on an Irish one they thought their deceased sister would have liked.
Sitting at the table, they all were excitedly discussing the reading. Their deceased sister not coming through and their disappointment was part of the conversation.
At some point my friend noticed that on the wall right next to her is a picture with a poem (or saying, I forget) which is about ...sisters!
They all felt that was their deceased sister giving them a sign and assuring them she is indeed still with them.
I do realize that EVEN MORE of John Edward's (UUU) unknowable, unlikely, unique and personal hits will mean zilch to most of you.
That's because he never misses for you, no matter how painfully obvious they are.
But maybe, just maybe, as the evidence mounts...and mounts...and mounts...someone, somewhere, will indeed truly "hear" me.
And even just one more light going on, can make the world a brighter place.
It will be a brighter place when con artists like John Edwards, Terresa Caputo, Sylvia Browne and the like are no longer allowed to prey on the vulnerable. It will be a brighter place when it becomes a crime to swindle people out of money with promises of contacting the dead.