I married my high school sweetheart at seventy-three to honor his final wish—but after his funeral, his lawyer came to my door and said, “You walked straight into his trap.”

“Marrying a dying man you barely know?!”

“I’ve known him longer than I’ve known you,” I said quietly.

“Nancy, listen to me. You’re being manipulated. Some stranger sees an old nurse with a pension and dangles a sob story, and you fall for it? Annul it! Today!”

“No, I won’t.”

“You foolish woman! You don’t understand what you’re doing!”

I hung up.

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