“Loss is one of the hardest parts of life, isn’t it? No one’s immune to it. Sometimes we know when it’s coming, and sometimes we don’t,” she said quietly. While I watched, she crouched down and gently laid the roses in front of the headstone, then smoothed her hand over his name while her chin trembled. “Your father was my best friend, too, you know. We could talk about anything, and that man understood me in ways no one else ever has. Choosing to love each other after everything we’d been through was the biggest gamble of our lives.” Sheila sucked in a deep breath and stared at the lifeless
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