Carla Kaufman Sloan

And he just brought through, like, beautiful moments and memories of Calder and I that...

You don't think are significant when you're a mom, like just doing stuff, but meant so much in certain songs that we listened to.

But what happened was because I got so upset, everybody was confused because if you're a medium, you hear these stories all the time.

And so they kind of gathered around me like, what's going on?

Melanie, what's going on?

And I thought, I confessed.

I was like, this is what happened.

And they're like, oh my God, it's so early in your grief journey.

It's really hard to be here during that time.

you really need to go through your grief.

And the woman hosting the event said, this is why I have strict rules about reading for parents, because it's a way to avoid grief instead of going through the whole process.

And she said, but since you're here, and we know your son's here, and then she gave me a reading, and then...

This whole line of mediums gave me reading after reading after reading.

It was magic.

And all of it felt evidential.

All of it.

Calder even let my grandparents speak because he was like,

And it was my mom's birthday coming up.

So one of the mediums said they're too old, like made me know it was my grandparents and said they're saying happy birthday to someone in your family.

So I knew it was like evidential that in August, your mom's birthday.