From our student newspaper, The Herald:

To my dear, beloved husband of almost 43 years: You are trying to sleep right now behind me, fully clothed in your work attire, on a noisy crunchy plastic couch several feet shorter than you are. [You are] here with me in the hospital, after a very long hard day full of all kinds of stress, sacrificing, trying with all that is in you to serve me and help me. It's a very appropriate picture of your life as my husband these many years...

He knows the words well by now, They bring back so many memories—raising nine children, years of missionary work in Taiwan, countless hikes and adventures and books read aloud in the evenings. The letter is creased and worn from many readings. He doesn't know when she wrote it, exactly, but it must have been only a week or so before the end—before November 21, 2018, when cancer overwhelmed her body and sent her on ahead to God..."

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