Caroline Brooks – The $10 and the Wooden Box
Ten dollars she could not spare.
My hands shook as I touched the paper.
“He wrote that the night he met you,” Daniel said.
“He kept it for the rest of his life.”
The photograph showed a smiling young woman with dark curls standing beside Walter in a garden.
The woman held a baby against her shoulder.
Something about her expression seemed familiar, though I could not place it.
“His daughter?”