It was a bad time for me.  My grandfather-in-law, a man that I dearly loved, and my father died within a year of one another.  That is why I can not exactly remember when it happened.  I think it was after Daddy left. But, it may have been before.

I got a telephone call one day.  The caller id showed nothing.  Like it was not working or something.  You could tell there was someone on the line but they would not answer.  I began getting the call more and more each day until at the end of the seventh day I had gotten it seven times.  The call came seven times every day, starting at seven minutes past seven a.m.  It always came at seven minuted after an hour.  It lasted exactly seven months.

  If I didn't answer the call it would ring and ring until I did.  I *69'ed the call that very first time and would *69 it every time.  The recording said that the number came from 7-777-777-7777.  I tried to call that number and would be told that there was no country prefix with a 7.  I called the telephone company, 411 (information), and checked on the internet.  Each and every one told me that there was no area code that was 777 and that there were no areas that had the prefix 777 in any country. 

Where did the call come from?

The last time I got the call I stayed on the line just like I always did.  The call would end after 7 minutes.  You could hear a gentle click and you knew that no one was there any longer.  But that last time, there was a slight noise at the end of the seven minutes.  Not exactly a voice but I could tell it was the word Goodbye.

Who was it?

Why me?

Why seven?