I Lost My Husband When I Was Just 35. He Left Me With An Inheritance I Had Never Imagined.
October 19, 2025
In a dimly lit Italian restaurant, not long after we received the terminal diagnosis for their son, I told my in-laws, Brian and Carol, that when Erik died, I couldn’t imagine being family anymore.
We’d already been through so much. At 35, I wasn’t supposed to lose my husband to a rare liver cancer or spend midnights in the antiseptic hush of his hospital room. Instead, I should have…