Sara finally decided to look at the photographs. She was immediately sorry. They made no sense. The first depicted a young dark-haired woman wearing an off-white antique-lace mantilla. On the back was written, “Sometimes the heart knows what the mind cannot comprehend.” It was her mother’s handwriting. Sara searched the hooded eyes in the photo. The woman looked like Soren St. James.

The second photograph was of a shirtless guy with sun-bleached hair, standing seductively in a doorway. It was not Sam Burden. On the back was written, “September 18, 1948 – Atlanta, Georgia, Who can know the heart?” Sara was born on the 20th day of February in 1947, or at least that was the date they had celebrated.