I called Mom while I was shopping and asked, “Should I bring chocolate cake or apple pie for Christmas?” – Welcome

For most of my life, he’d been a faceless man who had somehow decided I wasn’t worth finding.

Now he was only an old man lying in bed.

Thin wrists.

Hollow cheeks.

A blanket pulled high across his chest.

The moment I entered, his eyes filled with tears.

“You look exactly like Annie.”

I stayed standing.

“Did you know where I was?”

Thomas closed his eyes.

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