The Unexpected Discovery
It all began on a rainy afternoon when Emma decided to clean out her grandparents’ attic. The task was years overdue and the attic had become a damp, musty room full of cluttered boxes and forgotten heirlooms. Sifting through old trunks, yellowed papers, and faded knick-knacks, Emma found an old, leather-bound photo album tucked into a dusty corner of the attic. Its worn cover told her that it hadn’t been opened in decades.
Curious, Emma picked up the old album and began to flip through its yellowed pages. The photographs had captured moments from a bygone era: sepia-toned snapshots of family gatherings, children playing in green meadows, and stiffly posed portraits from the early 1900s. One particular photo caught her attention—that was the moment when she would identify the man she knew was her great-grandfather standing next to a woman she had never seen before with this woman carrying a baby in her arms.
The photograph was at the same time attractive and eerie. Why was no one talking about this woman? And why did the baby look almost like Emma’s grandfather? It never crossed her mind that the questions in her head were more than a casual note attached to a keepsake family photograph-it was more of a mystery to be solved.
