My Husband Received a Christmas Gift from His First Love – After He Opened It in Front of Us, Our Life Changed Forever – INFO DESK

Christmas morning had always been a ritual of warmth and routine for our family—matching pajamas, cinnamon rolls,

and the comfortable predictability of a life twelve years in the making. Greg and I had built something steady together, a kind of quiet marriage people call solid. But the illusion of certainty cracked a week before Christmas, when a small cream-colored box arrived for Greg with no return address and a name neither of us had spoken in a decade: Callie, the college girlfriend who once broke his heart. Greg slid the box under the tree, but the air between us shifted, a silent tremor neither of us addressed.

When he opened the box on Christmas morning, the world seemed to fall out from under him. Tears streamed down his face before he could speak. Without explanation, he threw on his coat and left, whispering only that he had something urgent to take care of. Hours later—long after the cinnamon rolls burned and Lila’s excitement wilted into worry—he returned looking hollow. He handed me the box and inside was a photograph: Callie standing beside a teenage girl with Greg’s unmistakable eyes.

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