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What Dreams May Come and the acquiescence that is true love

At face value, Richard Matheson’s What Dreams May Come embeds a romantic tale of soul mates at first rent apart, then rejoined. This occurs because one of the souls, Chris, is killed in a car accident and enters the afterlife—a fact which for the principal third of the novel he refuses to believe. Then, Chris’s… Continue reading What Dreams May Come and the acquiescence that is true love