At 73, I Married My Dying High School Sweetheart as His Final Wish—After the Funeral, His Lawyer Knocked on My Door and Said, “You Walked Right Into His Trap”

Thomas had metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Stage four.

Treatment had slowed it for a time.

Then stopped working.

He was not expected to live long.

He knew.

I knew.

Neither of us pretended otherwise.