Mara looked at her, worried. Elise tried to reassure her, though her voice faltered. “Maybe she reminded him of someone he knew,” she said. But the explanation rang hollow even as she spoke it. Did the veteran know her grandma?
Still, Elise didn’t know what to do about it. Her grandmother rarely spoke about her life before marriage to her grandpa, and they knew so little about the people from that time. Elise wondered whether the veteran had seen someone who resembled her, or whether he truly knew her. Grandpa himself had died a couple of years before Grandma.