His Last Gift
Aug 26, 2022
3 minutes
BY SUSAN KARAS, YAPHANK, NEW YORK
ILLUSTRATION BY DAN BRANSFIELD
I hugged my husband’s picture to my chest one day while I wandered from room to room, alone in our big house. “Bruce, I miss you so much.”
Missing him was nearly unbearable, but it only accounted for one layer of my grief. Bruce and I had rarely been apart during his long and valiant battle with cancer. We’d fought the disease side by side for years. But when my husband passed from this world, I had been sound asleep. Less than
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