PART 2: when I realized the truth. My grandfather wasn’t just any old man.

the phone back into his bag as though it were the most natural thing in the world. He looked up at me, his face soft but full of something profound. “The past has a way of catching up with us, Mira,” he said, his voice gravelly but sure. “And when it does, you’ll understand why I’ve never needed to explain myself to anyone.”

I felt a knot form in my continue reading …