MY SON GAVE AWAY HIS LUNCH—AND UNLOCKED A STORY I WASN’T READY TO HEAR

MY SON GAVE AWAY HIS LUNCH—AND UNLOCKED A STORY I WASN’T READY TO HEAR
I told him not to wander too far.
We were walking back from the library, and I was digging through my bag for our bus card when I turned around and saw him—my 6-year-old—kneeling beside a man slumped against the wall, holding out his sandwich in both hands.
At first, I panicked. I rushed toward them, blurting, “I’m so sorry!” like my kid had done something wrong.
But the man looked up at me and smiled.
“It’s okay,” he said. “I was just telling your boy thank you.”
My son turned to me and said, “He looks like Grandpa. Can we give him the juice, too?”
The man’s face changed just slightly—like a name had echoed down a hallway in his head.
I hesitated. Then asked quietly, “Do you… know a Peter Colton?”
His eyes widened.
“Used to,” he said. “Long time ago. Why?”
I could barely get the words out.
“He was my father.”
He looked at me, then back at my son. “Then I guess that makes you… family.”
I didn’t know what to say. I didn’t even know if I wanted to know the truth.
But when he reached for the sandwich with trembling hands, I saw the tattoo on his wrist.
The same one my

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