My son won the lottery, kicked me out of the house, and said: “You’re worthless! Go live in a nursing home.” I wandered aimlessly to clear my mind. When I sat down on a bench, a homeless man walked up to me, smiled, and said: “You look just like my late wife…”

“Glenda Morrison, born June 15th, 1954, married to Blaine Morrison on October 12th, 1973, had a son named Richard in 1995.”

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“Blaine.” The name came out as barely a whisper.

He nodded, his whole body shaking now. “Glenda, is it really you? Please tell me this isn’t some kind of cruel hallucination.”

I stared at this homeless stranger, trying to see my husband in his features. Blaine had been clean shaven, well-dressed, always smelling of the cologne I bought him for Christmas. This man was rough around the edges, marked by years of hard living.

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But those eyes, those were Blaine’s eyes. The same warm brown that used to look at me like I was the most precious thing in the world.