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The spirit-father in Beverly Matuomi’s dream
The spirit-father in Beverly Matuomi’s dream is recorded in 1 distinct story.
The figure who visits Beverly in her reported dream and tells her to take the name Matuomi. Retained as a dream participant, without asserting an independently real ancestor.
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The Green Mile
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Two nights before she was due to sit in Old Sparky, she called me to her cell and said she had been visited by her African spirit-father in a dream. He told her to discard her slave-name and to die under her free name, Matuomi.
The figure who visits Beverly in her reported dream and tells her to take the name Matuomi. Retained as a dream participant, without asserting an independently real ancestor.
A participant in a reported dream.
The Green Mile ↗ (paid link)By Stephen King