Our family was watching TV and a person was talking about how he needed a heart transplant. Meredith asked me if you are still the same person if you get an organ transplant. I put two and two together and asked her, "Do you think you would lose all your feelings if you got a new heart?" "Yes," she said, quite seriously. There is that literal, pictorial mind again. Sweet and sad at the same time that she wondered about that. I was wondering how she pictured love residing in her heart. Did she see literal pictures of feelings sitting in her heart like she sees Merebith in her brain? I got the chance to ask her that yesterday and she thought about it for a minute and responded, "Mom, Merebith is only in my brain--she hasn't left Brainsburg [that's where Merebith lives and works] and gone other places in my body."
We had a lot of fun thinking about how Merebith could take some travels around Meredith's body. Maybe she could jump in a gondola and travel around on the blood, visiting different organs. But then Meredith said that every time she moved, Merebith would be tossed around against her body. I guess this doesn't happen when Meredith is in her brain, because she isn't in Meredith's literal brain...she's really just in her mind.
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