“Look for Susan.
For a moment, I thought I had heard wrong.
“Susan?”
Linda nodded.
Find her. When you do, you will understand everything.
His hand began to shake.
Then he added something that caused me a chill.
“And please… forgive me in advance.
I was paralyzed.
Forgive yourself why?
Linda closed her eyes.
Just promise me you’ll find her.
I started asking you questions.
Why Susan?
How did Linda even know about her?
What had he done?
But at that moment, a nurse walked into the room and said Linda needed to rest.
They asked me to come out.
And for the rest of that night, a single name kept going around in my head.
Susan.
It was my first love.
We were both around twenty when we met in college.
Back then, I was convinced that she was the woman I would spend the rest of my life with.
