The last time I saw my first love was on my 17th birthday—thirty years later, a woman who looked exactly like her stepped into my yard

to write.

“I spent thirty years wondering if you’d forgive me. I never found the courage to ask.”

Ashley came back the next morning with a photograph.

A woman and an older man, standing outside a diner I didn’t recognize. The woman was Lily, older, maybe fifteen years earlier. The man beside her had aged into someone I almost didn’t recognize.

Almost.

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