Doctors Found Something Unusual During My Medical Exam but a 12 Year Old Record About My Husband Left My Son Speechless
The Letter in the Bedside Drawer
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For twelve years, there was an envelope in my bedside drawer that I never opened.
It sat under a Bible, a tube of hand cream, my reading glasses, and a little stack of birthday cards from my grandchildren. A plain white envelope, sealed, with one word written across the front in my husband’s slanted handwriting.Study Anatomy
Margaret.
Some nights, I took it out and held it. I turned it over. I ran my thumb along the flap.
Then I put it back.
Robert gave it to me three days before he died. He was in a bed at St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, with tubes in his arms and his skin the color of old paper. He pressed it into my hand and held my fingers closed around it.
