My First Love, a Marine, Vanished – Thirty Years Later, I Saw a Man with His Exact Eyes Waiting at Our Place by a Weeping Willow, and My Heart Stopped

“Mr. Tom thinks you work too much, Mommy.”

I set my coffee mug down. “Who’s Mr. Tom?”

“He checks on me!” she said as if that answered it.

It started the way all terrifying things do.

I figured it was an imaginary friend. Ellie has a whole world living in her head. I let it go. That was my first mistake.

It was about a week later that she stopped me cold.continue reading …