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Ghooooosts is real! How ya doin this week? This week's story is one of those inexplicable happenings. We don't die and neither does love. Enjoy.....

"Growing up as the youngest and only girl with 3 older brothers I always felt protected by them. It was always a running joke in the family that any boyfriends that might come around would get their asses kicked just for trying to date me. Many girls might feel annoyed with that but I truly relished in feeling that love from them. In early 2003, I was in 7th grade, and my oldest brother Josh had left for college across the country. Soon after I started secretly dating my first boyfriend. It was a very prude and innocent relationship which involved talking on the phone late at night and holding hands once, real fiery! By the beginning of summer I told my mom about the boyfriend and got her blessing, and felt confident enough to break the news to my big brothers. I wrote Josh a letter at college checking in and telling him about my new relationship. I also enclosed a photocopy of my boyfriend’s yearbook photo because it seemed fitting. Unfortunately for my 12 year old self, that relationship didn’t go much further and ended soon after that. However, since this was before emails and texting I didn’t get that news to Josh right away. Fast forward to September of that year when Josh came home for the weekend to be best-man in his friend’s wedding; the day he was supposed to fly back to school, he suddenly killed himself.

Later that week while we were planning his memorial and mourning as a family, Josh’s girlfriend told me how after he read my letter he carried around my boyfriend’s photo in his wallet intending to kick his ass when he came home. This made me chuckle and feel that sense of love and protection I always had. It also gave me an idea. Before summer break I went on a field trip to an amusement park and my boyfriend and I had snapped a photo together, it was the only other one I had aside from the yearbook. Soon I received a small urn of Josh’s ashes and I put it on a table with that photo from the amusement park, face up, just to see what would happen. I left for school that day, my parents left for work and the house was empty all day, but when I got home I found the photo flipped face down in the same exact spot, and ashes covering the outside of the urn and on the table around the photo. I was so shocked, I didn’t even know urns opened, I thought they were cemented closed or something! I knew he was still with me and would always have an eye on the guys I dated. Josh is and will always be my protector and guardian angel, no doubt about it."