- I was embarrassed by WHY he built the castle.  I told him... (and try not to laugh at the speech Lol!).... “Why this is ridiculous!  Why you’re a foolish man indeed!” Then Mom heard Patrick say – and this (his speech) sounded weird to Mom – “And says I in reply – ‘What fool be I, had I let the jewel slip away? Then who would have been the more foolish?’” Then Mom picked up something like – “The moment I saw you.  From that moment on, nothing was in my control.  The Fates took over.  I was compelled to do anything but comply.”

- Mom felt he was married twice before he married me.  One’s death was an accident, and the other died from a disease.  A plague or something.  He had children from those marriages that weren’t my age, but they were nearly my age.  They got along well with me, and called me “Stepmother.” (Funny thing is that in my story, the main character is a widowed father that's much older than the heroine).

- Patrick and I had 2 girls.  They didn’t have blonde hair like him.  They had very dark hair. Patrick then said “French” to Mom in a teasing, laughing way.  He said it with a sort of laughing smirk.  Our children were very close in age and had VERY long hair.
- The swans were a big deal because with each child we had, he gave me a swan. Lol!  That’s why Mom kept seeing a black swan and a white swan.  We had 2 children, so we had 2 swans.  Mom said she thought that Patrick thought he was very creative/poetic when he came up with that, but that I thought it was a little silly. Lol! (This is funny – in the sequel to my first novel, Joseph says they’ll plant a new rose tree with each child they have. Now… I did sort of borrow that idea from the Avonlea books and tv series, but I have always LOVED the idea.  So maybe there’s a deeper reason why that always struck me as an awesome idea.  Only in my book I didn’t use swans, but rose trees.  And Patrick did tell you that I loved roses).

- Then Mom asked me to make a note for myself to look up what the symbolism for a swan is. Also, I named our home myself, and it had something to do with swans.

- I asked Mom about how I heard something that sounded like “Chamrain Lake” in my head when I woke up one morning.  She said she thinks what I really heard was “Shimmering Lake.”  Or  “A Shimmering Lake.” (It may have sounded like “Chamrain” b/c of his accent).
- I named our home myself, and it had something to do with swans.  She said the name I chose was sort of a joke.  Like Patrick thought the castle he built for us was so grand, etc. but I thought it was a bit too much. Lol!  A bit ‘Goddy’ I guess.  I called it “Castle Cygnet.” Mom asked me to look up what Cygnet meant.  (I had only heard of  “Signet Classics” – the publishing company. Lol!) But Mom and I didn’t know what it meant, so we looked it up on the internet.  I was AMAZED.  It said a Cygnet was:

  A juvenile swan, traditionally thought of as being ‘ugly.’ (See ‘The Ugly Duckling’)

So… I referred to our home lovingly and jokingly; as “A Cygnet.” Lol!

- “Adelle” – one of our daughter’s names, named for my grandmother. Mom kept hearing something like “La Fon..” Like a French word for a “Fountain.”  Then she heard “Spring.” Like an underground spring.  We looked it up on the internet and found that “De Fontaine” translated as both “fountain” AND “spring” (an underground spring).

- I mentioned to Mom that I would love to see where I used to live.  She heard Patrick tell her “It’s not there anymore.” Lol!  I guess he didn’t understand that I was talking about wanting to see it in A DREAM. Lol!  Not in real life.  (Even in that dream I had, it was in RUINS – big time).
- Mom said my name was not “Becky,” but it was a form of that.  She kept hearing something like “Bacchae.” We looked that up, and it mentioned something about The God Apollo….which reminded Mom of when he mentioned us ‘looking at the Heavens’ (in the Automatic Handwriting)…. and the story ‘Euripedes, The Bacchae.’

- Patrick died of old age.  He lived to a very old age.

- Mom kept hearing, again, “De Fontaine (Bleu).”  She thought it was one word.  She guessed it meant “Blue Springs.”  It was a surname.