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I couldn’t speak.
Mike and I aren’t strangers anymore. He helps around the house. Checks on my kids. His wife bakes for my daughter. We’ve become an unlikely family — bound by love, gratitude, and the legacy of a woman who gave without expecting anything in return.
Let them.
They don’t know that a quiet nurse once gave away her family’s savings to save a child she didn’t even know. They don’t know that love, even after death, can still knit lives together in the most unexpected ways.
Every Saturday, I sit beside her stone and whisper the same words: