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Dear Dream Interpreter,<\/p>\n

Sorry for not writing until now and for sometimes saying aloud that dream
\nreading is worth a pinch of sh!t.  I hardly ever remember dreams, but the other
\nnight I had two vivid visions.  <\/p>\n

In the first one, I dreamt that this stupid house never sold–never ever
\nsold.  The details are fuzzy, but there were a heap of for sale signs in
\nthe front yard.  Hundreds of for sale signs piled together, bent,
\nrusty.  And I felt disappointment. And it was not easy to cut the tall
\nweeds growing up between them.<\/p>\n

In the other dream, I was standing in the lunch line, about twenty people
\nback from the ticket-taker at the cafeteria for Beal City Public Schools. 
\nWho butts in from the back of the line, cutting, along with three of his friends?  Shaquille O’Neal, that’s who.  WTF?! I couldn’t see
\nhis head, but the Lakers jersey and No. 34 gave him away.  He and his
\nfriends pushed by us and into the kitchen.  The end.<\/p>\n

So what could all this mean, Dream Interpreter?  <\/p>\n

Restlessly,<\/p>\n

dmueller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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