Last night I had a tour with 4 women getting together for a tri-annual girls weekend out. One of them had a story to tell that reminds me of an old abortion clinic story in Buffalo I deleted but this one I'm going to post just because it raises an interesting question in a less unpleasant way.
She had had a miscarriage in the 5th month and then had two more children. Her 3 year old son developed an imaginary friend. It was her husband who pursued the imaginary friend and the son described the gender of the child they had lost, described the approximate age if it had lived and the exact same name they had chosen. The women appeared to be still upset about the miscarriage even though it had been years and two children since. I even asked (thinking that would be why the child was still here) but she dismissed it but by the expressions on the faces of the other women she was with, she wasn't.
Usually it's the elderly or at least someone who had lived a portion of their life. This makes me wonder when the soul does first appear (at this point I'm a firm believer that souls never die, but some of them do go to rehab).