At My Husband’s Funeral, I Opened His Casket to Place a Flower — and Found a Crumpled Note Tucked Under His Hands

I told him, ‘I’m here because of something your wife said at a funeral yesterday.’”

Ben swallowed. “I told him she said she’d had an affair with Greg. That her kids were Greg’s.”

I winced.

“He just… froze,” Ben said.

“Then he yelled for Susan. She came out with a dish towel in her hand. Saw me.

Saw him. She knew something was wrong right away.”

“She denied it,” he said. “Said I was lying.

I told her I’d heard her with my own ears.”

“And then?”

“Her husband asked again,” Ben said. “He looked… broken. He said, ‘Did you tell people our kids aren’t mine?’”

Ben stared at the table.

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