All the women my widowed father dated disappeared overnight – so I asked my friend to go out with him.

My father looked at me.

“Lola?”

I closed the application.

“I need to check something.”

I drove home and took an old storage box out of my closet.

Inside were photos, birthday cards and papers that had belonged to Mom.

At the very bottom was a photo from her last summer.

Next to her stood my aunt Sabrina.

Sabrina was wearing the same white sneakers.

She was my mother’s younger sister.

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