An elderly woman asked me to marry her as her final wish — and after she passed away, her lawyer handed me her hospital bag and said, “She chose you for a reason.”

to say yes, aren’t you?”

“I don’t know if what I have to lose matters more than what she has to lose,” I confessed.

My friend sighed. “That’s the problem with you, Daniel. You never think you have anything worth protecting.”

I went back to Gloria’s room that afternoon. She was propped up, reading a paperback, and she smiled the second she saw me.

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