Blind Date Turned Proposal

There was a very large mirror in the bathroom.

She shed her outer garment and all her clothes until she was completely naked. Josie turned around, her back facing the mirror,

At her shoulder blade, there lay a birthmark akin to a cloud right in the middle.

Not only did it resemble Heather’s, identical in every way, but it was also in the exact same position, not a hair’s breadth off.

Josie stared at the birthmark for a long time, a memory suddenly surfacing from her childhood. She remembered chasing after Paul, asking, “Dad, why do I have a birthmark?”

Paul gently patted her head. “Do you find it ugly?”

“No, it’s just that I’m curious. Why do others not have it, but I do?”

dared not wear overly revealing clothes. Even later, when she was in bed with Dexter, she always deliberately covered her back. When he asked her about it, she simply said she didn’t like it from behind. It didn’t make her feel secure.

had always respected her, never

to finding your biological parents in the future. So, it could also

with you. I don’t want to find my

comforted and laughingly called

memory of the past, a pang of sorrow struck Josie.

to see the birthmark on her back did she feel the reality of it all. This mark, which had been with her for over twenty

Josie and Liana. How remarkably similar we are. Even our eyebrows and eyes bear

Mark and Claudia, she felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.

she persistently used all sorts

long time, anxiously knocking on the door, “Ms. Jo, are you okay?”

cold water flowed down from her head to toe. How could Heather replicate my birthmark exactly in the exact same manner when the only other person who knew about it was Pop? If I am real, why was Heather able to pass the DNA test? Dexter even did it once on his

becoming heavy. Someone has tampered with it. Heather alone couldn’t have done this. How many people does she have backing