English to Portuguese Other Psychology past-life

We can imagine the mother making the mistake of remarking she had a living son in a certain college, but it is difficult imagining her casually remarking that her deceased son had a marked habit of playing with a watch in his pocket, although when the fact was spoken by the lips of the entranced medium it added a characteristic touch.

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