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"Mr. Sarlo decided it was worth one more try. He drank again. Very quickly, he saw a forest covered with snow. “There were dead bodies all over the place,” he said. “There was one skeleton sticking out of the snow. And somehow I knew that was my father.

“I don’t know exactly how we communicated because I didn’t see anyone alive but I heard his voice. He came to me and I asked him a very important question, which was: ‘why didn’t you say goodbye?’ He said, he thought he could get out of it, and be back the same day, so why wake up little George?

“I asked a second question: ‘Did you love me?’ He pointed at the skeleton sticking out of the snow.” The skeleton’s mouth hung open. “He said: look at me. That’s my last breath. And with my last breath, I blessed you and I promised to guard you all your life.”

Mr. Sarlo said that afterward, something shifted. He realized that his life had been “absolutely full of miracles,” he said. “It changed my life completely.”"