Chapter 57Lina
Remembering the day the photograph was taken, Lina smiled. It had been grand, gratifying, and sad at the same time, because that’s when her time at the school had come to an end and she’d received her certification. Yet what had been very exciting then felt like a lifetime ago now. The dress she’d worn that day had been a favorite once but was long gone now, probably donated to a good cause by Mrs. Langstuhl when she didn’t return. Only her boots remained. She wore them still, but her feet weren’t in the picture, so no one knew except her.
Caressing the image of the school with the tip of one finger, she took in the faces of the Caswell family still scrutinizing, in turn, her and her image, and a glimmer of hope formed in her belly. Maybe now they would believe her. Maybe
