After My Mom Died, I Found a Childhood Album – in One Photo, an Older Girl Stood Beside Me, Looking Exactly Like Me
I found the photograph by accident, wedged deep in the back of my late mother’s old album, as if someone had carefully hidden it there and hoped it would never be found. It slipped out when I lifted the album, fluttered to the floor, and landed face down at my feet. At first, I almost ignored it. But something made me bend down and pick it up. The moment I turned it over, my breath caught so hard it felt like my chest forgot how to work. There were two