It so happens, this is a true story. We had decided to elope. Not get involved with wedding madness and have our day be ours only.

Things were all set as we climbed into bed the night before. We were staying at a townhouse that looked out over a lake. But it was rather difficult to see the lake because there was dense forest all around. At the exact and it was exact, stroke of midnight, we both were rattled out of sleep by the most shattering sound imaginable.

The large wall mirror in the adjoining bathroom had come off and fallen to the floor into more pieces than would ever be found again. We tried to make a sound as this was happening. But when you are awakened by noise that is completely otherworldly, you can't move, make a sound or think. Only minutes had passed really, when we finally crept out of bed to look in the bathroom. I was gobsmacked.

Of course I immediately thought this to be an omen for our marriage...

We were married anyway and time went on. We went again to this same townhouse while I was pregnant. No one had been living there for sometime. We arrived in the dark. There was no one about. I went upstairs to tidy the bedroom and when I turned on the lights, there were thousands of boxelder bugs crawling on the walls!

I told my husband to come look. He did, and we both left, never ever to sleep there again. I can't explain what happened or why. But it did.

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