I Went to Surprise My Husband at Work—His Colleague Looked at Me With Tears and Asked, “He Hasn’t Told You Anything, Has He?”

Reliable.

The thing I had missed.

I found a photograph of the original note I had placed in his lunch.

You don’t have to take care of everyone else all the time. Let me have a turn today.

I had meant:

Lunch.

Years later, it sounded almost prophetic.

But I resisted that.

Nothing mystical.