2 septembre 2026

Every day, when my daughter got out of preschool, she would tell me, “There’s a girl at my teacher’s house who looks exactly like me.-NANA

I laughed softly. “Really? Like how?”

“Like my eyes and nose. Teacher said we look exactly the same.”

I smiled, thinking it was just a child’s imagination. But Lily continued, very seriously:

“She’s the teacher’s daughter. She’s really clingy and always wants to be held.”

Something stirred uneasily inside me.

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That night, I told my husband, but he brushed it off, saying kids often make things up. I tried to believe him.

But Lily kept mentioning the girl. Again and again.

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