My grandfather died 15 years before my grandmother. After he was buried, my grandmother reserved and paid for a spot right next to him. A few years later, she moved to the Netherlands, where 5 of her children were living, leaving her eldest son who was already married, and my mother behind.
A few years after that, my grandmother had a dream in which my grandfather asked her to please move the heavy stone next to him, as he did not have the strength to do it by himself. He was very irritated. My grandmother did not know what to make of it, because she had never dreamed about her husband since he died. She couldn't shake the feeling that it meant something, so she decided to call my mother and tell her about it. My mother in turn told her brother about the dream. He was startled and confessed that he had recently buried his mother-in-law in the spot that was reserved for my grandmother. He had told no one about it, because he knew they would object to it. And he figured that my grandmother was now living in the Netherlands, so he might as well use the spot for his mother-in-law.
My grandmother left it at that and when she passed she was buried here, in the same cemetery as my grandfather, but far away from his grave. It was sad that my grandfather had waited all those years for my grandmother, but in the end we were not able to lay her to rest beside him.
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