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That night, she refused to explain.
She said she wanted to tell me everything in the morning.
But when I woke up the next day, Susan’s bed was empty.
Her suitcase was gone.
She wasn’t answering her phone.
And there was a white envelope sitting on my table.
Only one thing was written on it:
Linda, read this all the way to the end. Then you can hate me.
I opened the envelope.
The first thing I saw inside was Michael’s handwriting.
My husband’s handwriting.
And after I read the first sentence of the letter, everything fell from my hands.
For several minutes, I just sat on the edge of the bed, unable to pick the letter back up.
Michael had died eleven months earlier.
I would have recognized his handwriting anywhere.