Sam is Kate’s special friend.\u00c2\u00a0 For the most part, Sam is a boy.\u00c2\u00a0 He lives on “I Love You Street,” which is in California.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes California is a place far away, sometimes it’s a house a few blocks away, and sometimes it’s a secret spot known only to Kate and Sam.<\/p>\n
Lots of people — friends, strangers, family members — have connections to Sam.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Like when we met our friend, Bryan, at Disney World a few months back?\u00c2\u00a0 Bryan was Sam’s Daddy.\u00c2\u00a0 The girl at the pool who played with Kate yesterday during swim break is Sam’s sister.\u00c2\u00a0 Sam’s Mom and I also share some similarities.\u00c2\u00a0 For example, we both have a Diva Cup<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 Except that mine is plain; Sam’s Mom’s has princesses on it.<\/p>\n It’s not strange for a kid to have an imaginary friend, so we haven’t paid Sam a whole lot of mind.<\/p>\n Except.<\/p>\n Kate is the kid who comes into our bed everynight, often because “the ghosts won’t let her sleep.” Part of her bedtime routine of tucking her in is announcing to various monsters and ghosts (most of which are named “Georgia” or “Frederick”) that it’s bedtime and Kate is done with playtime.\u00c2\u00a0 On some nights, they are can be very persistent.<\/p>\n And Sam?<\/p>\n Sam, she’s told us, used to live in our house.\u00c2\u00a0 I didn’t really pay much attention to this, as I’m quite certain our house isn’t in California.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe Kate was making a continuity error.<\/p>\n Oh, but also?\u00c2\u00a0 Sam’s dead.<\/p>\n “What do you mean, Sam’s dead?”<\/p>\n “He’s not alive anymore.”<\/p>\n oh.<\/p>\n So.\u00c2\u00a0 Someone tell me.\u00c2\u00a0 At what point does developmental appropriateness cross into contact with The Beyond?<\/p>\n Is this something she’ll outgrow without exorcism?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sam is Kate’s special friend.\u00c2\u00a0 For the most part, Sam is a boy.\u00c2\u00a0 He lives on “I Love You Street,” which is in California.\u00c2\u00a0 Sometimes California is a place far away, sometimes it’s a house a few blocks away, and sometimes it’s a secret spot known only to Kate and Sam. Lots of people — […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[51,67],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6535,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions\/6535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}