Is This Your Boy, Jack?

Imagine you’ve never met your grandmother.
You’re four years old,
in a strange house.
There’s an old woman propped up in a bed,
your father standing by.
You walk in. Did he beckon you?
You feel the weight of his hand on your shoulder.
Almost seventy years later, recall the old woman’s words:
Is this your boy, Jack?

Your grandmother.
This stranger.
Just imagine.

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