He wasn’t supposed to go through old family albums.
But when he did, he found a picture of his grandfather—young, laughing, arm around a girl who wasn’t his grandmother.
A note was scribbled in the corner.
“She was my greatest what-if.”
He swallowed hard, staring at the words.
That night, he held his phone, debating.
Maybe it was time to stop running from his own.
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