By Patricia McMurry, Special to The Conway Daily Sun
BRETTON WOODS — What if you checked in to Room 314 at the Omni Mount Washington Resort and were awakened in the middle of the night by the foggy vision of a lovely woman wearing an elegant dress seated at the foot of the four-poster bed in which you were sleeping?
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