The same brown door.
The same bougainvillea.
The same step where she had cried while pregnant 10 years earlier.
Hannah knocked.
Frank opened the door.
When he saw her, his face turned pale.
“Hannah?”
Diane appeared behind him.
And when she saw Owen, she gasped.
No one spoke.
Owen hid slightly behind his mother.
Hannah took a deep breath.
“I came to tell you the truth.”
Frank clenched his jaw.
“After 10 years?”
Hannah pulled an old photograph from the folder.
The photo showed a smiling young man wearing an engineer’s hard hat, standing beside Frank in front of the factory where he had worked his whole life.
Diane covered her mouth.
Frank stepped back.
Hannah placed the photograph on the table.
On the back, written in shaky handwriting, was one sentence:
“Your father tried to save us.”
Frank began to tremble.
And Owen, not understanding any of it, asked:
“Mom… is that man my dad?”
The same brown door.
The same bougainvillea.
The same step where she had cried while pregnant 10 years earlier.
Hannah knocked.
Frank opened the door.
When he saw her, his face turned pale.
“Hannah?”
Diane appeared behind him.
And when she saw Owen, she gasped.
No one spoke.
Owen hid slightly behind his mother.
Hannah took a deep breath.
“I came to tell you the truth.”
Frank clenched his jaw.
“After 10 years?”
Hannah pulled an old photograph from the folder.
The photo showed a smiling young man wearing an engineer’s hard hat, standing beside Frank in front of the factory where he had worked his whole life.
Diane covered her mouth.
Frank stepped back.
Hannah placed the photograph on the table.
On the back, written in shaky handwriting, was one sentence:
“Your father tried to save us.”
Frank began to tremble.
And Owen, not understanding any of it, asked:
“Mom… is that man my dad?”
