For twenty years, Richard’s wife had seen the tattoo of a woman’s face across his chest without thinking much about it. Early in their marriage, he told her the tattoo artist had simply invented the woman, and she accepted the explanation. Life eventually became focused on their struggles to have children and on their adopted daughter, Claire. But everything changed when she discovered a hidden compartment in Richard’s old toolbox containing a photograph of the same woman from the tattoo, along with old papers and an address book. Even more shocking, the woman in the photograph was holding a newborn wrapped in Claire’s distinctive baby blank…Continue Reading
