you years ago,” he whispered. “Your mother kept encouraging me, but I never found the courage.”
“Tell me now.”
He closed his eyes briefly.
Then he nodded toward the phone.
“Let her see.”
The businessman reluctantly handed it over.
On the screen was an old black-and-white newspaper photograph.
The headline read:
MIRACLE IN THE SNOW: 52 SURVIVE FLIGHT 417 CRASH
Behind the headline was a damaged airplane lying in a snow-covered field.
Smoke rose from its broken fuselage.
In the foreground stood a young man wearing a torn pilot’s uniform,
