I Saw a Facebook Post: “I’m Looking for My Mom.” Then I Realized the Girl in the Photo Was My Exact Carbon Copy

The Photo That Made My Stomach Drop

Not “similar.” Not “could be related.”

I mean carbon copy.

Same sandy hair. Same glasses. Same soft smile with a tiny gap between the front teeth.

Even the same dimple on the right cheek — the one that only appears when you smile a certain way.

I stared at the screen like it was a mirror that didn’t belong to me.

Under her photo was the caption:

“I’m looking for my mom. All I know is she lived in Iowa in the late ’90s. Please share if you know anything.”

My hands started shaking so badly I almost dropped my phone.

Because I lived in Iowa in the late ’90s.

I was in my early 20s, working my first library job in Des Moines.

But I’d never been pregnant.

Never given birth.

Not once.

So why did this girl look like a younger version of me?

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