Beau, you bring up an interesting point.
From my youngest rememberances-- I remember looking down upon my mother and father as they were getting married and said that my mother was the angel I wanted to be born to-- and of course when I expressed this thought to my mother when I was about 4 years old, my mother quickly said (as we were in a cab and she was embarrassed that I "saw her marring my father) "No, No Carol. You weren't even born yet. You did't see me getting married to Daddy". Well, if your person of authority says it didn't happen and you are only 4 years old, what do you believe??

I remember the incident of saying that I saw her --- but I don't remember being in the taxi cab with my brother, grandmother , mother and cab driver. My mother's words to me tried to erase what I remembered. The person who drowned at age 5 was probable pulled out of the water quickly and who ever pulled her out was saying how wonderful "I" am for saving this child. When the 5 year old protested and said she saw her Home-- it was dismissed by adults who knew better. They kept telling her only about how quckly she disappeared in the wave then suddenly appeared on the shore line. That story was told over and over again without the rememberance of her heavenly home. Just as I have forgotten the color of the cab and if I was sitting inbetween my mother and brother or my grandmother and mother-- something finally triggered my rememberance (as it happened, it's always been my parents wedding picture) of the incident.

I told mommy " I remeber when you got married in that church to daddy. You were so beautiful." That was my interpretation at age 4.
As I describe it as an adult, I have a larger vocabulary-- so I can elaberate. --- Carol Ann