Dream of: 05 January 2001 (3) "Dangerous Task"

My mother, my sister, and I had gone to visit old girlfriend Birdie in Portsmouth. She was living on the second floor of a house where she had apparently been living for a while. We walked into the living room while Birdie scurried around the house. My sister walked into the bedroom and walked out with a big stack of magazines about 60 centimeters tall. I looked through the magazines and at the bottom of the stack I found three old issues of Playboy. The date on the cover of one was December 1978. I thought that was a time when I still knew Birdie. With my mother sitting beside me and looking over my shoulder, I started flipping through the magazine. Birdie walked into the room and said something about the Playboys. Apparently she didn't want me looking at them. She said something about a picture of a man whom she had liked in the magazine. I didn't see any pictures of any women, and the centerfold had been torn out.

I walked out of the room and entered the kitchen, where Birdie was. Suddenly I recalled that after Birdie had given birth to Brandi, Birdie had had her left leg amputated. I could see that she now had two legs, but one had no foot. There was a stump at the bottom. I walked over to her and told her I had forgotten that she had had her leg amputated. She blamed it on her husband, Rick. She said if Rick would have fed her fruit after the birth, the leg wouldn't have been amputated. She had lost her leg because Rick hadn't taken care of her.