My wife died suddenly, leaving me with four children—after the funeral, my mother-in-law gave me a sealed box that revealed a message my wife left behind for me.

by morning.”

“It’s probably nothing.”

She wasn’t fine by morning.

Less than forty-eight hours later, a doctor told me she was gone.

I do not remember driving home that night.

I only remembered standing in the doorway of our bedroom, staring at her side of the bed, unable to step inside.

I didn’t know it yet, but she’d died with continue reading …