Ben was only seven years old, but what he said inside a swimming pool changing room left his father completely frozen.
His mother had been missing for two years.
And everyone believed she was never coming back.
A Saturday Swimming Routine
Every Saturday, Ben and his father went swimming together.
It was something they had started as a family tradition when Ben was younger.
His mother, Claire, had loved those weekends. She would teach Ben how to swim, laugh when he splashed her, and afterward the family would usually stop for fries at the pool café.
But everything changed two years earlier.
Claire had gone on a weekend boating trip with some colleagues.
A sudden storm hit the area, causing the boat to overturn.
Several people were rescued. One body was recovered.
But Claire was never found.
Search teams spent days looking for her, but eventually the search ended.
For Ben’s father, there was no proper goodbye.
