Marji

I turn toward the sound of Dr. Kizer’s door opening and my entire body freezes. I’m momentarily paralyzed as the dark, penetrating stare comes my direction, latching my gaze and rocking my reality. I can’t compute as I’m decimated with the calamity of worlds colliding.

Two impossible scenes become one.

While I’m staring at the man I saw recently in the grocery store with his daughter, I know in my heart, in every fiber of my body, that ...