My thought is that Richard (or whatever the psychic's name is) was a fraud. But he was eventually able to really 'predict' things. I'm thinking that Claire was his first 'real' prediction and that was why he was so adament on her doing what he saw... because it was real.
Or he might just have a thing against women giving their babies up for adoption. *shrug* Who knows.

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