A Puzzling Figure Since Childhood
I first dreamed of the old lady in the picture above at the age of seven. She looked eerie with her unusually long silver hair and wrinkled face. However, my heart was filled with an unfathomable sorrow at the sight of her. She kept appearing in my dream in this manner till I was eight years of age. Come to think of it, my late grandmother and my mum strangely resemble her. Is she related to them or had I ever seen her in my early childhood? My mum kept telling me that she knew no one like that in her family upon my inquiry. Had I been imagining too much as a kid? I had always been in poor health then. However, I recently found out that there was a tragic death in my mum's family many decades ago(during my stay in Brunei last week). A beautiful auntie of my mum was poisoned to death. My mum's family still has no idea who the murderer is(or was). Her death had made her mother(my maternal great-grandmother terribly devastated. Being the youngest in the family and the first ...