“When my parents adopted John at 13, the officers told our family that he had a twin brother who got lost in the foster-care system,” Margaret said slowly, as if piecing together the fragments of a long-forgotten memory. “We never knew what happened to him. It’s possible that the man in the photograph is John’s twin.”
Delilah felt a rush of emotions—relief, curiosity, and a renewed sense of mystery. “A twin brother?” she repeated, her head spinning with the implications. “How come John never mentioned this to me?” “I don’t know,” Margaret said softly. “Maybe he didn’t want to dig up the past. Or maybe he thought it didn’t matter anymore, you know he seldom liked talking about his childhood.”