A couple of years ago, my sister Dikka sadly died in Wales. But life marches on and this past weekend, one of my other sisters, Katie, got married to the lovely Chantal in Montreal. My wife Roma and I were preparing to travel from Toronto to join the celebration, when Roma’s sister told us about an old Nova Scotia story that when the dead want to contact the living, they send a dime (Canadian 10-cent coin) to mark their presence. She had experienced this a couple of times since their mother died, and Chantal later confirmed that this had happened to her too. So we were just about to leave, when Roma reached in her coat pocket and there was a dime (very unusual in these cashless times)! We thought maybe it was her mother, but on closer inspection, it was actually a UK 5-pence piece, a coin of similar size and value to a dime. So obviously it was Dikka, indicating her desire to join the rest of the siblings at the festivities, and the coin had a place of honour at the wedding.

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