The Life I Never Lived, I Woke Up as My Married Self

The Life I Never Lived

I fell asleep as a single twenty-five-year-old woman.

When I opened my eyes...

I was screaming in a delivery room.

By the time the pain ended, everyone was congratulating me on the birth of my son.

They said I had a loving husband.

A happy marriage.

A family that adored me.

A life I had never lived.

The only problem?

I remembered none of it.

Unable to tell anyone the truth, I pretend to be suffering from postpartum memory loss while desperately searching for answers. Every smile meant for me, every photograph, every shared memory, and every gentle look from the man who calls himself my husband tells the same impossible story.

According to everyone else...

I belong here.

But if this isn't my life...

Then whose memories am I carrying?

And if I discover the truth...

Will I still want to go back to the woman I used to be?