His face turned pale.
“Forget it, Mary. I shouldn’t have said that.”
My name is Mary. I’m 63 years old, and my husband, Robert, is 66. We have a 35-year-old daughter named Emily and two grandchildren.
Throughout our life together, there had only been one thing that seemed strange to me.
Every Sunday, Robert went to the cemetery, saying he was visiting his mother’s grave. He always took a bouquet of white roses with him.
I had never suspected him of anything.
But after that strange conversation, I decided to uncover the truth.
The next morning, the doorbell rang.
Standing on our doorstep was a woman who appeared to be about sixty years old.
When I saw her face, I froze.
She looked so much like me that it was as if I were looking into a mirror.
“Mary,” she said in a trembling voice, “I’m your sister. And I’ve been waiting for this day for 35 years.”