01/12/2025
She kept a lantern burning for forty years, waiting for a man who never came home.
He had promised it would only be weeks. He kissed her, told her to wear her blue dress when he returned. She waited. Months turned to years. The town moved on—but she never did.
Every evening, the lantern glowed. She tended their garden, wore the dress, and wrote letters he would never read.
Decades later, a discovery revealed the truth: he had tried to come home, right within miles. His final note read:
“Thrown from horse. Can’t walk. Tell Emily I tried. Tell her I loved her.”
She waited her whole life—and he had been on his way.
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