He Left the Day Our Son Was Born — 25 Years Later, We Met Again

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The Unexpected Encounter

It happened on a Tuesday.

Ordinary in every possible way.

I was at a small café I’d been to dozens of times before. The kind of place where nothing remarkable ever happens.

Until it does.

I noticed him before I recognized him.

There was something familiar in the way he stood. A posture, a hesitation, something I continue reading …