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Danielle (1:19)
Hi everyone welcome back to national park after dark thank you for joining us again for another trail.
Cassie (1:24)
Tales episode i'm cassie and i'm danielle and trail tale episodes are ones in which we read listener emails about your experiences with pretty much everything it doesn't have to have to happen in a national park we've kind of expanded our horizons with that but it would be nice if it was like kind of tangentially associated with the outdoors just to stay on brand the outdoors or the.
Danielle (1:48)
Paranormal i mean we do ghost stories and sign stories all the time yeah.
Cassie (1:53)
That'S true as well i take it back it could be anything okay it.
Danielle (1:56)
Can be anything we just have to find it interesting right that is true.
Cassie (2:00)
And i am the keeper of the trail tales i have the power so you gotta impress me first that you.
Danielle (2:10)
Do.
Cassie (2:12)
Okay would you like to go.
Danielle (2:13)
First sure my first story is titled signs from a dumpster hi ladies my story does not involve the outdoors but i know how much danielle appreciates signs from loved ones and i'd love the opportunity to share a few i have received to preface i would like to include a trigger warning for pregnancy loss a close friend of mine passed away years ago while i was in high school this friend whose name was derek was close to me and several of my siblings my shortly after he passed i had a dream in which derek showed me what the earth looked like from his point of view it's hard to explain but it was almost as if he now existed as the wind in the trees he told me that in his heaven someone named lemon let him visit earth every wednesday to check in on everyone but he said occasionally he will sneak out of heaven and visit earth on other days as well he was always a bit rebellious since that dream every time i see a lemon as silly as it seems i think of him several years later i was going through a difficult time on a particularly difficult day he crossed my mind and i realized he had not sent me a sign in a while so i casually asked him to send me something but he had to make it obvious so i didn't miss it at that time i lived in an apartment building with a shared dumpster in the parking lot i went to throw away some trash and noticed something new drawn on the dumpster it was what looks to be an art palette with the word lemon on it one thing we have always bonded over was my love for art when he was always away at boot camp he would write me letters that almost always started with a question how's the drawing going that was as direct of a sign as i could have hoped for i'll include a photo i took of this drawing fast forward again a few days later and my sister told me derek had visited her in a dream he was talking about her son who was only one year old at the time he then told my sister the next one will be safe with me a year after receiving that message and admittedly for forgetting about it i found out i was pregnant shortly after finding this out i lost my baby after having locked myself in the house for a while i decided to embark on a mission to find my husband a new sweatshirt a dumb little mission to keep my mind off of things while shopping i found a shirt with lemons printed on it i casually thought to myself oh hi derek but then quickly recalled the conversation i had had with my sister one year prior and in that moment i knew my baby was safe with him i could go on and on about the signs he sent me throughout the years but i will just include one final one as this one involves you two while listening to npad i was inspired by all the stories of signs from loved ones and once again asked derek for a sign on that day i was listening to trail tales episode twenty seven in this episode someone had written about their hesitation to begin a business and had asked for a sign to guide them in making this decision the sign they had received a big old lemon sitting on a tree trunk i don't know how that lemon got there but it's crazy to think it served as a sign twice for two complete strangers if that writer is listening i hope you started your business and i hope it it is absolutely thriving thank you both for everything you do you've given me a reason to seek hope in dark times and provide more laughs than you know i wish you both all the happiness in the world sincerely ally you oh ally beautifully written what a beautiful sign story too and the fact that it also you got a sign from someone else's sign within our podcast it's just small world.