by Jeanette Huston

Created on: April 18, 2009   Last Updated: July 24, 2011

Kelly carefully looked at the photograph on the wall at the post office. The girl in the photo seemed so familiar in so many ways. Her smile looked familiar. Her curly dark hair was familiar. The red dress she wore looked familiar. Somehow she knew this girl in this photo. Who was she? She thought back! Where could she have met this girl? She was familiar but so vague like a buried memory. She had to figure this out!

She took down the flyer of the missing girl to take with her to help her unravel this mystery. Flyers of missing children are often posted up in the post office. This one had an older photo on it. It was taken 13 years ago. This girl would be her age now. She wondered what this girl would look like now! She knew chances of this girl being alive after all this time was very mute. She knew this from watching the news. So many kids go missing and so many kids are found dead. This girl had been missing for 13 years but still she had to know where she knew the girl from.

Kelly went home. She ate dinner with her parents. She was lucky to have such wonderful parents. They were always home for dinner. They went out of their way to make her a part of everything. She could always talk to them about anything. So why didn't she tell them about the photo of the girl on the flyer at the post office? The mystery of this girl on the flyer ate at her all during dinner. The only way to make the annoying curiosity pulsing in her head to stop would be to solve this mystery.

After dinner she went to the attic. Once again she stared at the flyer. She looked at that photo of the girl in the red dress. She looked at every detail in the photo trying to put the pieces together. It just didn't make since. The memory just wasn't coming! Maybe it is just a case of deja vu she thought. Something inside her told her it wasn't. Call it intuition or a gut feeling but she had to go with it.

She pulled out the photo albums to look through thinking if the girl was a childhood friend she would be in one of the photo albums. She found the photos of herself when she was 3 years old. That is when the cold truth hit her. She saw the girl on the flyer. She just stared at the photographs. The hair, the eyes, the smile, and face were all there. It was the same girl. No red dress but the same girl! Kelly could feel the tears rolling down her face.

"It's me! I am the missing girl on the flyer!" Kelly said. There was a reason her parents had no photos of her before she was 3 years old. There was a reason her parents had blue eyes but hers were brown. She noticed differences between her and her family. So many things that didn't make since in the past begin to make since. She knew the girl in the photograph on the flyer all too well. She realized her whole world was a lie!

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