Some moments in life knock the wind right out of you — not with violence, but with truth. And when it happens in front of your daughter, at a wedding, in front of everyone you know… it stays with you forever.
It had been five long years since my wife passed — or so I believed.
Five years of raising our daughter alone. Of building a new life out of the ashes she left behind. But all of that was ripped away in an instant, the moment I saw her face again — not in a memory or a dream, but standing at the altar… wearing a wedding dress.