As I approached the deserted house at the end of the road, I froze. Someone was standing near the doorstep. It was a shock, considering the house had been abandoned for as long as I could remember. No one knew its history or who it belonged to; it was just a skeleton of a home, rotting in silence.
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Driven by curiosity, I walked toward the figure. "Hello? Can I help you?"
The woman turned, and her gaze was heavy. She looked at me with a strange sense of doubt, her eyes searching mine.
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"Who are you?" she asked. Her voice was deep, sending a slight chill down my spine, yet I felt a strange, inexplicable pull toward her.
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"I live just over there," I replied, pointing down the road. "I saw you and wondered if you were lost."
She gave a humorless smile. "Why would I be lost walking into my own home?"
"You own this house?" I asked, surprised.
"But I've never seen you here. Were you living abroad?"
"I guess you could say that," she replied mysteriously, her voice trailing off.
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What kind of answer was that? I looked at her more closely. She was middle-aged, but it was her eyes that haunted me—they were the exact shape and color of my mother’s.
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"You know," she whispered, her deep voice cutting through the evening air,
"sometimes these abandoned places are the ones that used to be filled with the most laughter."
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I opened my mouth to speak, but the sound of my name being called broke the silence. It was my mother, calling me from our porch. I looked back for just a second to say goodbye, but the doorstep was empty. The woman was gone. She hadn't just walked away—she had vanished into the thin, cold air.
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Later that evening, I found my sister sitting on the floor, flipping through an old, dusty photo album. I leaned over her shoulder and my heart stopped. There was a photo of two young women who looked identical.
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I grabbed the album and ran to the kitchen. "Mom, who is this?"
My mother took the photo, her face instantly turning pale and eyes filling with a deep, old sadness.
"It’s me... and my twin," she whispered. "She died twenty years ago."
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