# story about looking for reincarnated loved one?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-about-looking-for-reincarnated-loved-one/751002>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 2, 2016, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-about-looking-for-reincarnated-loved-one/751002 "2016-04-02T23:53:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cabbage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@Cabbage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cabbage)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-about-looking-for-reincarnated-loved-one/751002/21 "2016-04-08T05:06:57Z")

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> [@elfkin477](#):
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> So…are all of these suggestions just sort of similar, or do any of them involve a person seeking out or stumbling upon a child who was their parent, sibling, or spouse in their previous life?

Without spoiling anything more, that’s what I Origins is about.

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**Author:** ![awldune](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@awldune](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/awldune)\
**Post date:** [April 8, 2016, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-about-looking-for-reincarnated-loved-one/751002/22 "2016-04-08T14:45:40Z")

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I haven’t seen the movie, but I believe Birth (2004) hits on this theme:

> **[Birth (2004) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337876/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_29)**
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> Birth: Directed by Jonathan Glazer. With Nicole Kidman, Cameron Bright, Danny Huston, Lauren Bacall. A young boy attempts to convince a woman that he is her dead husband reborn.

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**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\
**Post date:** [April 9, 2016, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-about-looking-for-reincarnated-loved-one/751002/23 "2016-04-09T03:06:26Z")

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> [@awldune](#):
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> I haven’t seen the movie, but I believe Birth (2004) hits on this theme:  
> [Birth (2004) - IMDb](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0337876/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_29)

Not that much. She wasn’t looking for her husband until

the brat claimed to be him

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**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/story-about-looking-for-reincarnated-loved-one/751002/24 "2016-04-11T17:49:06Z")

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Karen Russell wrote a short story called _The Barn at the End of Our Term_. In it, Rutherford B. Hayes (as well as several other U.S. presidents) were reincarnated as horses in a barn, and Hayes-the-horse began to suspect that one of the sheep in the pasture was his reincarnated wife.

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