At 73, I married the boy who’d broken my heart more than fifty years earlier. I thought fate had finally given us the happy ending we’d missed. But after three wonderful years, I lost him again. Then a secret from his past made me question everything I’d believed about our love.
My husband had been gone for six weeks when his brother brought me a box of letters that should’ve arrived fifty-five years earlier.
“He left something for you, but you’re not going to like it.”
Michael stood in my apartment doorway while two neighbors struggled to carry the enormous box inside.
“What’s in there?” I asked. “Peter’s entire bowling collection?”
“He left something for you, but you’re not going to like it.”
Nobody laughed.
Michael waited until the neighbors left before closing the door.
“During his illness, Peter asked me to keep this until after his funeral.”
“Why?”
“He didn’t want you finding out while he was alive.”
I stared at him.
Nobody laughed.
“Finding out what?”
He opened the box.
Inside were photographs, notebooks, envelopes, and a metal case.
I picked up an envelope addressed to me.
The handwriting was unmistakable.
So was the date.
“Finding out what?”
“Michael, this letter is from the year Peter moved away.”
“Yes.”
“Then why am I seeing it now?”
Michael pulled out a chair.
“Iris, there’s something about your husband you never knew.”
I was seventy-six, recently widowed for the second time, and living in an apartment I could barely afford.
Michael pulled out a chair.
I wasn’t interested in another mystery.
“Then stop treating me like a child and tell me.”
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