A dying woman refused her boyfriend’s proposals for years, then suddenly asked him to marry her days before her final surgery. Weeks after her death, a lawyer revealed the reason she had changed her mind. What had she planned for him?
I knew Margaret was sick when we met and fell in love.
I just never understood how bad it really was.
She had a rare autoimmune disease that, at first, I didn’t take seriously enough.
We were 27.
It was summer.
People that young didn’t die.
At least, not in my world at the time.
Margaret had a way of helping me believe that too.
She joked about hospital gowns.
She named her IV pole Stanley.
She laughed at stupid things.
Whenever nurses asked her to rate her pain from one to ten, she’d say, “Emotionally or physically?”
And when I started calling her “Margarine” after accidentally typing it in a text three weeks into dating, she pretended to hate it.
“You realize margarine isn’t even real butter?” she complained.
“Neither is your attitude.”
“I’m seriously reconsidering this relationship.”
“You’d miss me.”
“Unfortunately.”
I loved her before I understood how frightened I was of losing her.
As the months went by, Margaret got worse and worse.
And I stayed by her side through all of it.
I drove her to treatments.
I sat beside her during appointments.
I held her hand when she was scared.
Eventually, hospital cafeterias became more familiar to me than restaurants.
I learned which parking garage elevator was always broken.
I learned how to sleep sitting upright.
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