The first thing I saw inside the shoebox was a photograph.
It was old, slightly faded, and folded at one corner.
I picked it up with trembling fingers.
It was a picture of me.
Not the man sitting in the lawyer’s office that day.
Not the man who had arrived at Evelyn’s house with a duffel bag and a head full of plans.
It was me years earlier.
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