For people who believe in reincarnation - this makes perfect sense. Thanks for sharing.

sweet. I am desperate for grandchildren for this very reason and relationship. Alas, my girls, ages 20 and 23 are still too sensible and young to comply!

Lovely story! It reminds me of the legend that the reason we have a small vertical cleft under our nose is because we're born knowing the answers to life's great mysteries. But before we can utter that first wail, an angel comes & gently places its forefinger on our top lip and whispers, "Shhh."

Not to get too woo-woo, when I was 6 and my brother was 4, we would drive by an area out in the country, where as I recall there were some concrete foundations, he would say "That's where my family lives." Every once in a while he would make mention of "my family" (not ours). He has no recollection of that now--but I do!

Thank you for the sweet, intriguing story.

I like this story.

When I was in therapy some years ago, the therapist asked me to consider why I chose the family I was born into. This was a surprise and something that I had never heard or thought about before.

It is interesting to contemplate the answer....I was already a licensed therapist, and a registered art therapist at the time. I needed therapy myself due to multiple losses, pending loss of job, loss of my mother, and loss of a significant love relationship.

How wonderful life was before we thought we knew everything. I love your story. We must always remain open to the possibilities of new realities. I am 83 and still thinking , learning and trying to grow a better me

From the inside cover of the book "LIFE BEFORE LIFE A Scientific Investigation of Children's Memories of Previous lives" by Jim B. Tucker, M.D., director of this research at the University of Virginia Medical Center: "For the past forty years, doctors at the University of Virginia Medical Center have conducted research into young children's reports of past-life memories." How I wish I had written down more of the conversations I had with my children when they were very small. At that time, I would have discounted such memories as fantasy; now I'd be intrigued. I think it is this book that says the children seem to lose their memories of past lives when they near age ten or so.

But why would children chose abusers, child molesters or drug addicts or simply parents living in war torn extremely poor countries?

Wendl, I loved that little legend, thanks for sharing it.
I wonder why trolls imagine we care a fig about their need for attention.

This story and these comments bring up an old memory. When my daughter was 3 (50 years ago!) we often passed a cemetery near where we lived. On most all passings she would say ‘’look! A ballen garden”. Sometimes it sounded like ‘ballen’, sometimes sounded like ‘vallon’. When I would question her I’d get no insight at all - she’d just repeat it. I’ve never forgotten it. So strange. When the internet arrived I searched both terms repeatedly and found nothing. Maybe it was nothing, but I’ve always felt it was something, I just don’t know what.