Cochabamba Bolivia - 2010 - Chris

So, a little bit more about why/how the family is coping with the loss of Chris.  Basically, bluntly, it is because Chris is very obviously still here, so more on that now...
    •    I personally have not seen him (spirit/apparition), but Sandra has a few times here in the house soon after he transitioned, though not recently.  But in their dreams (very very vivid ones, with scenes that are amazingly interactive, and with happenings that seemingly could only result from Chris' involvement in them), Vanessa, Fernando, Lillian and Vee all have seen him.  But dreams are not the kind of "proof" most would give any weight to.  Chris' presence is clear from other things he does...like, turning on the radio at different times of the day depending on who is in the house, and even occasionally changing channels.  Does this radio have a timer?...yes, but, no one has ever programmed it, nor does anyone know how.  And, like I said, it turns on at different times, depending on who is here, and only mostly recently started doing this after Chris' transition.  Though something similar happened with this same radio soon after Fernando's father ("Don David") transitioned a few years ago, except that it happened in the middle of the night, and at that time, Chris was the one who was most skeptical of what was going on, and what it meant (or didn't mean), and told everyone to ignore it and that it was nothing.  It stopped after a few nights, but only after Sandra saw Don David here in the house and he told her where his ID was so that Papi could find and use it in the legal case against the woman who is falsely claiming to be Don David's wedded widow.  But most recently, the radio goes on while we are all at the table for breakfast around 9:25am +/-  When Mami and Papi were with us in Philadelphia, the radio would go on at night when the girls would came home from college, and sometimes in the afternoon when Aunt Carmen was here keeping an eye on the house..freaked her out of course, but now it has become a welcome comfort for the whole family, as it is Chris' way of just saying hello.
    •    One of most vivid recent examples was last week when Papi was gathering documentation necessary for transferring/closing Chris' bank accounts, and he found a college ID of Chris from about 6 years ago that was badly damaged with the lamination half-peeled off and his picture badly faded, etc. but that he needed to use to help prove Chris' existence/ownership/etc.  After showing it to the rest of the family, and all wondering whether the ID was going to be of any use, he put it on the nightstand beside him that night when going to bed, and when he woke the next morning, the ID was in perfect condition, with the picture perfectly restored, and the lamination like new.  Papi showed me the new ID.  The girls verified having seen the wretched condition of the ID before it was miraculously restored.  Obviously, no one in the family snuck into Papi's room during the night, took the ID somewhere to have it fixed, and returned it before him waking up.  The only explanation anyone can think of is that Chris did it.
    •    And then two more happenings, again involving music, and electronics, which Chris loved!  1.) The girls have a CD player, old-school, with manual push-buttons, power, etc., in their bedroom.  One time a week or so ago, while Vanessa was having a dream with Chris in it, she went to hug him in her dream, and the CD player in their bedroom turned itself on, waking her up at some un-Godly hour, and the CD had been "skipped"/"reversed" to a particular song that was one of Chris' favorites.  2.)  Chris had an MP3 played (a "Rio") that we gave him a few years ago.  While Mami and Papi were in Philly with us, Vanessa plugged the Rio into the home stereo system so she could listen to the music she liked while she was doing homework in the office area downstairs.  She was listening to "her" (ie "pop" and "electronic/dance") music, when in the middle of a song, it cut off, and skipped to the music that Chris liked (ie, "rock" and "metal").  So, slightly annoyed, Vanessa went over to the Rio, changed it back to her music, sat back down in the office, and it happened again.  More annoyed, she went back to the Rio, changed it back to her music, sat back down in the office, and it happened again, this time she let it go, realizing that it was probably just Chris.