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”
Our conversations began with the past.
Teachers.
Old classmates.
The bus station.
His father’s store.
My first nursing job.
Then gradually we moved into the fifty-six years between.
Thomas had never married.
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