The Photograph on the Fridge

When Mara visits her grandmother for the first time in five years, she notices a faded photograph hanging on the refrigerator—a young woman with dark hair holding a newborn, standing beside a man in a military uniform. Mara asks who they are. Her grandmother falls silent, then says: "That baby was your mother." But Mara's mother was adopted at age five, and no one ever mentioned her...