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When children claim connection to ancestors they never met

My twelve-year-old son says he remembers being my grandfather who died before he was born and he knows things about our family that he shouldn't know and I don't know what to do with this information.

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Unexplained knowledge in children challenges your beliefs about death, memory, and family connection.

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