When doctors informed him that his wife had only a few days left, he bent over her hospital bed and, masking his satisfaction with a cold smile, murmured
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“So was I,” she replied. “The difference is… I learned.”
She inhaled deeply.
The air felt different now.
The room was silent.
But it was no longer the silence of defeat.
It was the silence before a new beginning.
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