He Named Our Daughter After Her

Synopsis

Five years into our marriage, my husband had been carrying a torch for someone else the whole time. I knew they'd gone to college together, that she was into cats and books and kept her hair short. But I never knew her name. Then I found it when I was sorting through some old stuff and saw his graduation photo. Right next to her radiant smile, her name jumped out: Grace Evans. Suddenly, everything clicked—why he had insisted on naming our daughter Gracie. I calmly put the photo back and drove off to pick up Gracie from kindergarten. I told her, "Come on, we're changing your name. "And maybe we'll swap out your old dad for a new one."