The man getting out of the SUV looked exactly like the one kissing my wife in the photograph on his pillow. I approached him with my heart pounding. “I know this sounds crazy,” I said, “but that woman is my wife.” His reaction made me realize something was terribly wrong.
I saw my wife’s face on a pillow in a stranger’s back window.
At first, I thought my mind was playing tricks on me.
Traffic had stopped on the highway, and the older SUV ahead of me had a square pillow propped against the glass.
The pillow showed a man kissing a smiling woman on the forehead.”
The woman wore a green jacket, a silver necklace, and had a tiny mole beside her eyebrow.
My wife, Claire, had all three.
I bought that necklace for our second anniversary.
The green jacket was hanging in our closet that morning.
I stared until the car behind me honked.
Claire and I met in our mid-20s.
We’d moved in together after two years and married three years ago.
We had a house in the suburbs, a shared grocery list, and an ongoing argument about who left coffee grounds in the machine.
I thought we were happy.
I followed the SUV off the highway, through several ordinary streets, and into a neighborhood 15 minutes from ours.
It pulled into a driveway.
A bearded man around 40 got out with a grocery bag.
He was the same man on the pillow.
I parked across the street and approached him, trying not to sound like a lunatic.
“Hey. Sorry to bother you. Is that your car?”
He nodded cautiously.
“The woman on the pillow in your back window. That’s my wife.”
He looked at the car, then back at me. “Your wife?”
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