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PART 1: THE DIVORCE<\/strong><\/h1>\n

The morning after Robert\u2019s funeral, the woman he had married only weeks after divorcing me appeared on my porch holding his blue tie.<\/p>\n

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I recognized the tie before I truly saw her face. I had given it to Robert on our thirty-fifth anniversary. He wore it when he signed our divorce papers and again when he married Claire.<\/p>\n

\u201cGreta,\u201d she said, \u201cRobert made me promise not to tell you the truth until after he died.\u201d<\/p>\n

I gripped the door. \u201cYou had four months with my husband. Whatever truth you shared can remain buried with him.\u201d<\/p>\n

I began to close it.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe didn\u2019t leave you because he loved me.\u201d<\/p>\n

That stopped me.<\/p>\n

Four months earlier, Robert and I had returned from the hospital after learning his cancer had spread. It was stage four. At home, I arranged his medicine beside the sink, as I had handled countless small details throughout our thirty-nine-year marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ll face this together,\u201d I told him.<\/p>\n

Robert pulled away.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t want you beside me, Greta.\u201d<\/p>\n

At first, I thought fear was speaking. Then he demanded a divorce and said he wanted to spend his remaining time with Claire, a coworker I barely knew.<\/p>\n

When our children, Hanna and Steven, arrived, Robert told them I was abandoning him.<\/p>\n

I called it a lie, but he lowered his head and let them believe it. Steven asked him directly whether he had requested the divorce.<\/p>\n

Robert said nothing.<\/p>\n

His silence should have exposed him. Instead, my children decided I was cruel enough to leave their dying father.<\/p>\n

Three weeks later, I signed the papers.<\/p>\n

Robert gave me the house, most of our savings, and part of his business holdings. The adviser called the settlement unusually generous.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy are you giving me nearly everything?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ll need it more than I will.\u201d<\/p>\n

He wore the blue tie that day.<\/p>\n

Outside, Hanna and Steven told me Claire would care for him and that they planned to marry in three weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was willing to stay,\u201d I said.<\/p>\n

Hanna looked at me coldly. \u201cThen you should have acted like it.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the next four months, my children barely spoke to me. I learned of Robert\u2019s death from a midnight message.<\/p>\n

The next day, Hanna told me I was not welcome at the funeral.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was my husband for thirty-nine years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe stopped being your husband.\u201d<\/p>\n

I spent the funeral alone.<\/p>\n

The following morning, Claire arrived with the tie and three documents.<\/p>\n

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