After my husband passed away, a nurse gave me a purple pillow he had been hiding in his hospital room. I thought I was ready for anything, until I opened it and found the secret he had left for me. I never thought love could cause pain and bring healing at the exact same time.
After my husband died, his nurse gave me a faded purple pillow in the hallway and said, “He hid this whenever you came to visit. Open it. You deserve to know the truth.”
I just looked at her. The hallway stayed busy around us. A cart full of hospital food rolled by, and I heard someone laugh near the nurses’ desk.
My entire life had just ended inside Miles’s hospital room, yet the world kept moving forward.