Daisies

The woman I approached looked very different than my twin sister did the last time I saw her.  Could this be a ruse; somebody pretending to be my long-lost identical twin sister?  But what would be the object of such an action?  Our fa... Read more

The woman I approached looked very different than my twin sister did the last time I saw her.  Could this be a ruse; somebody pretending to be my long-lost identical twin sister?  But what would be the object of such an action?  Our family didn’t have any money and we certainly couldn’t have come into the view of some gangster or national embezzler.  We are an average farming family who had to give up farming and resort to becoming employees of small local businesses.  Surely nobody would target us for a scam.   If it really is Anastasia, why all the cloak and dagger moves?  Surely, she wouldn’t lie to me and make up some impossible story about her life and why she had been lost from us for so many years!  When she removed her sun glasses, I knew it was Anastasia, my identical twin sister who had gone to a lot of trouble to hide her identity from her new world.  My heart dropped to the ground as I sat down across from her.  Where had she been all these years and what happened to make her deny her family and who could hate her enough to want to kill her?  I had hundreds of questions I wanted to ask, but she had given me a script that I had to abide with, because we were both in danger for our lives just sitting here talking.   Less