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European Border Crossing

I am with a small group of friends in middle Europe, crossing into...Austria, maybe? From Italy, I think. And it's late winter, or late autumn, because the forests are a drab brown, grey trunks and branches bare, and I remark that they look just like the woods around my mother's house in Kansas City. That it's funny we've come all this way and the land is so similar. The border is in an old university town at the bottom of the hill and our train (I believe) drops us off amidst the hundreds-year old stone buildings. It's beautiful and calm.

When we get to the border crossing (the town itself straddles the two countries, I guess, because the crossing was in the town), my friends are waved through without any trouble but the border agent took me aside and said I had to go to a different area. He looked concerned but not upset or worried, just a little confused. I remembered then that I didn't have a passport (I don't know how I thought I'd get through), and had been hoping they wouldn't notice... (in waking life, my passport is about to expire, but I remembered in the dream that it had expired.)

The border agent takes me into an adjacent room, a small office with a door that seems like it leads out of the building to another processing center. I expect that I'll be treated like I would at the US/Canada border if I didn't have a passport, but he simply takes out a chart and asks me to read it. It's some kind of intelligence test, a story puzzle. I realize while I'm trying to solve it - and surprised that they're not going to steal and interrogate me - that I do in fact have my passport in my backpack, and that I still have a week left on it! And I realize that they must just be giving me the intelligence test because they know this and are wondering how stupid I must be. Relief.

(art by Adam Scott Miller)

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