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Fourteen years of childless marriage, countless hours of serving the Lord and chasing heavenly riches together in the Ukraine…and Sofiy swallowed a few too many sleeping pills.
The pathologist had called her actions an accidental overdose, but the note she’d left behind, the one I’d found after crying over her cold, lifeless body, stated otherwise.
Horrified, ashamed by the truth of her unhappiness I hadn’t noticed because of my striving to please God, I’d hid the note—from the authorities and her family.
Sofiy, I whispered her name in my head like a prayer while watching Phillip sleep on his hospital bed.
The blonde-haired woman whose innocent face and inner beauty had stolen my heart and tons of memories I could have made with Phillip and Aaron. She’d owned me in every sens
