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?”

was in bed with Dexter, she always deliberately covered her back. When he asked her about it, she simply said she didn’t like

her, never forcing anything.

thought, Paul said, “This birthmark, perhaps, could be the key to finding your biological parents in the future. So, it could also be considered a form of luck, don’t

“I want to stay with

laughingly called her silly.

memory of the past, a pang of

as if she was dreaming, and only when she opened her eyes again to see the birthmark on her back did she feel the reality of it all. This

and Liana. How remarkably similar we are. Even our eyebrows

time she saw Mark and Claudia, she felt

she persistently used all sorts of

anxiously knocking on the door, “Ms. Jo, are you

washed over her at that instant as the 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

eyes, her breathing suddenly becoming heavy. Someone has tampered with it. Heather alone