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had helped us pick out a slightly larger band. I slipped it onto her finger. She stared at it for a long moment. Then she looked at me.
“My wife.”
She smiled. “Margarine.”
Everyone laughed. For maybe 20 minutes, she wasn’t a patient. I wasn’t a caregiver. We were newlyweds. That was all.
Six days later, she went into surgery continue reading …
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