I Booked a Solo Cruise After a Painful Divorce and a Stranger Knew Why

slid it across the linen toward me.

I looked down.

Every drop of blood drained from my face.

I’d seen that photograph before, but I hadn’t laid eyes on it in three decades.

My voice barely came out.

“How…” I whispered. “How do you have this ?”

A blue satin dress. A boy in a rented tuxedo. A gymnasium banner blurred behind us.

My prom photo.

“That’s me,” he said, tapping the boy in the tuxedo. “I’m Peter.”

The room narrowed to a pinpoint. Peter. My high school sweetheart. The boy