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?”

Even later, when she was in bed with Dexter, she always deliberately covered her back. When he asked her about it, she simply said

her, never forcing anything.

moment of thought, Paul said, “This birthmark, perhaps, could be the key to finding your biological parents

head. “I want to stay with you. I don’t want to find my biological

comforted and laughingly called her

of the past, a

back did she feel the reality of it all. This mark, which had been with her for over twenty years, played

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

Claudia, she felt an

she persistently used all sorts

had been waiting outside for a long time, anxiously knocking on the door, “Ms. Jo, are you okay?”

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

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

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