The Stranger at My Wife’s Grave: The Heartbreaking Secret That Changed Everything

He would sit cross-legged beside her headstone, hands resting on the grass, head bowed. After an hour, he’d press his palm gently to the stone, stand, and leave.

I began watching him from my car, hidden behind the row of old pines. The quiet devotion unsettled me. Who was this man? Why did he come here every week — to her?

Sarah had been gone fourteen months. Breast cancer took her at forty-three. We’d been married twenty years — a good, simple life, built around our kids and her work as a pediatric nurse.

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