Being a second wife means your husband has an unavoidable history with his first wife.
But for Diana Alejandra Keel, the past was very much still in her present.
Her husband’s first wife had tragically died, and Diana was living in same house where the freak accident had happened.
It was inescapable for Diana, but she felt nothing but compassion for her husband.
Diana, 38, was married to Rexford Lynn Reel, who went by his middle name, Lynn.
A decade earlier, Lynn, 57, had been married to his first wife, Elizabeth Bess Edwards, 42.
On 1 January 2006, she had died after falling down a small set of outdoor concrete steps at their family home, near Momeyer in North Carolina.
It had been cold at the time, and there was slippery ice covering the steps.
Elizabeth had fatally hit her
