Doctors gave Emily a month to live, but I married her anyway and cherished every day we had left. Three weeks later, I buried my wife believing I'd known everything about her. Then her lawyer came to my door with a box she'd forbidden him to give me while she was alive.
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I ran my fingers along the furniture the way I always did, out of habit, drifting through the dark because I could not bring myself to turn on a single light.
She used to hum in the kitchen every morning.
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Now there was nothing but the low ticking of the clock.
That was how long I had been her husband before the world went silent in a different way.
My sister, Beatrice, came by that first morning and found me sitting in the dark.
My neighbor heard strange noises in my bedroom — So I came home early
"You haven't eaten, have you," she said softly.
"I keep waiting for her to call my name," I told her. "Isn't that foolish?"
