Message in Latvia

From:  Amber Berglund (amberberglund@aikorn.com)
Story type: Angel
Location: Riga Latvia
Source: Form Submission
Date submitted: Mon May 28 19:12:45 2007

My commonlaw husband died in July 2006. Before he died I promised I would take his body back to latvia to be buried next to his father. His body was cremated and I carried him from Washington D.C. to Latvia in my arms. I met his mother at the airport and we began to make funeral preparations.

In order for this story to make sense, I have to fill in a little back-story. When my husband was alive, I changed the cell-phone entry on his phone to read "Amber - I love you" so that every time his phone rang his phone would read "Amber - I love you"

The morning I took his mother to the farmer's market to arrange for flowers a man walked past in a white t-shirt with blue lettering reading "Alex - I love you"... this was strange because we were in Latvia and this message was in English. I never saw this man's face and he disappeared in the crowd afterward.

In order for the second part of my story to make sense, I have to tell this back story. My husband died from a liver condition and he had terrible jaundice before he died. I saw this in him and he refused to accept that he was turning yellow. I would insist that he see a doctor and I would sing the Coldplay song "yellow" to him.

I was walking through old-town a day after the funeral and all of a sudden this group of street kids break out a guitar and they all start singing "Yellow" at the top of their lungs. Just then, a young man, looking like a much younger version of my husband started to speak to me. I asked him if there were an internet cafe and he lead me there. He was the spitting image of my dead husband. I told him so and he hugged me tight and gave me condolences. He set me up with the computer at the cafe and disappeared.