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

her, never forcing

said, “This birthmark, perhaps, could be the key to finding your biological parents in the

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

was comforted and laughingly called her silly.

past, a pang of sorrow

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

similar we

and Claudia, she

at her identity all along, yet she persistently used all sorts of

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

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

it. Heather alone couldn’t have done this. How many

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