The Moment of Rebirth

Marie was alone in the facility.  She had been ill.  Thinking back on it, she remembered collapsing when several things had happened.  Someone else had become ill.  She had a child.  Realizing that her illness may have been emotional, Marie returned to her room.  Joe was coming to see her.  She needed to get dressed.  Why? She wasn't going anywhere.  She hoped she would, so she chose a very plain dress and brushed her hair.  She washed her face and considered putting on makeup.  She wanted to look nice for Joe.  He was coming! The door was opening! She hurried with the buttons on her long sleeves.  The heavy jean dress was stifling!  The lady Doctor found her and firmly led Marie to be examined.

"I'm not so sure Joe isn't in collusion with your son," the lady Doctor said.  Marie was confused.  That sounded bad, like the Doctor distrusted Joe.  Marie remembered her emotional distress.  Did Joe cause it on purpose? Would he hurt her.

The Doctor brusquely pointed a tongue depressor at Marie 's face and made her sit.  Marie never resisted.  She thought about how docile she had been, never once trying to escape her confinement.  The doors had never been locked.  She stayed because she felt weak.  She was afraid.

Marie wanted to leave now.  She wanted Joe to come and take her home.  She felt a little stronger and with her heavy long dress on she felt secure enough to go out and face the world.

"I want you to tell me the moment of your rebirth."

"What?  ... Rebirth?" Marie asked the lady Doctor.

"It's not all that mysterious."  The Doctor held up a transistor, a small device which emitted a sound wave. It's screen showed the volume or intensity of the wave on a line, like a number scale.  A monitor on the wall in front of Marie and the Doctor showed random scenes of the outside world.  Marie saw cars driving by at night, their headlights beaming.  She was confused.

"Tell me the moment you will be born." The Doctor insisted.  Marie listened.  The cars were driving by randomly.  The transistor emitted a low drone.  It was boring.  Marie did not like it.  She waited.  The sound grew in intensity and she began to feel it's vibration.  Marie felt emotion well up inside her as the sound grew most powerful.  "NOW!" She shouted!

Smiling and proud of herself, Marie looked to the Doctor.  The Doctor was pleased with Marie.  The sound had fallen off.  Marie had picked its apex.

"Would you like to watch your new birth?" The Doctor motioned for Marie to look at the screen.

The last thing she remembers before awakening is looking at the monitor.

"I dreamt of Joe!" This was a big breakthrough.  She had not been able to dream of Joe all these years.  Her subconscious had been blocked.

This was a message.

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Read about Marie and Joe, a reluctant psychic and her boyfriend, a man with strange powers he did not seem to know of.  Read about Marie 's saga in Doing Time on Earth, and learn about Joe in the chapter called The Mystery Man.

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