I Married My Terminally Ill First Love to Fulfill Her Final Wish—At Her Funeral, a Stranger Approached Me and Revealed Why She Really Came Back

and walk until my legs hurt.

Cara had loved me.

“Do you hate her?”

Cara had harmed me.

Both truths remained, and neither erased the other entirely.

Mara visited often, usually carrying coffee and refusing to offer easy comfort.

“Do you hate her?” she asked once.

“Sometimes.”

“Anything simpler would be a lie.”

“Do you forgive her?”

“Sometimes.”

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