Tears blurred my vision.
“But why did you marry her, Daniel? What does any of this have to do with your marriage?”
Daniel’s face crumpled.
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“Because I fell in love with the bravest person I’ve ever known.”
He wiped his eyes.
“When I was twenty-six, your father privately told me about the transplant. He wanted me to understand how much Lily had endured. But he also asked me not to tell you.”
Daniel paused.
“That night, I went to see Lily. She was sitting in the garden, crying because a man she’d been dating had told her nobody would ever want to marry a woman like her.”
My heart broke.
“She asked me whether I thought she deserved a family.”
Daniel looked straight into my eyes.
“I told her she deserved someone who loved her exactly as she was.”
He took a shaky breath.
