Her heart was racing as she awakened from the dream. She had been sitting at her desk in her old job, when the door had suddenly opened. There was her father, dead these 28 years, dressed in a suit and holding out his hand to her. She had leapt to her feet, so glad to see him, with a cry of, 'Dad'!... Sophie slowly sat up and readjusted the tubes going into her arm and thought to herself--maybe today was the day, maybe she would see her father soon. She was ready.