the back, someone had written:
Thomas and Daniel, summer of 1978.
Claire recognized the surname because I had once shown her an old family album.
She asked her mother where the photograph had come from.
Her mother explained that it had belonged to a retired neighbor named Mrs. Whitaker, who had recently moved into assisted living. Claire’s mother had been helping her pack, and the photograph had accidentally ended up among a box of books and keepsakes.
Claire could have returned it and forgotten about it.
Instead, she looked at