Twelve Days After My Husband Died, My Neighbor Stripped Every Fruit Tree Bare—Then She Told Me Why

That became another thing I learned.

PART 42 — BRENDA VISITS TOO

Brenda went separately.

She left no flowers.

Only a small red apple.

When I saw it days later, I knew.

I almost removed it.

Then didn’t.

Patrick had belonged to me as husband.

That did not mean no one else had ever loved him.