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?”

not wear overly revealing clothes. Even later, when she was in bed with Dexter, she always deliberately covered her

respected her, never forcing

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

with you. I don’t want to find my

was comforted and laughingly

the past, a pang of sorrow struck Josie.

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

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

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

along, yet she persistently used

long time, anxiously knocking

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

opened his eyes, her breathing suddenly becoming heavy. Someone has tampered with it. Heather alone couldn’t have done this.

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