He Married Me Dying, Then His Lawyer Opened the Box

too sure of his own damage. Then came letters from an actual man. Fewer dramatics. More plain truth. Those were harder to read.

In the envelope marked 1988, there was no letter at all.

There was a folded carbon copy of a marriage license.

Thomas Bennett and Carol Jean Mercer.

Married June 14, 1988.

For a second I didn’t understand what I was looking at.continue reading …