“Again.”
“No response.”
And finally, one of them looked up at me and said the sentence that destroyed my entire world.
“It appears to be cardiac arrest.”
They carried him away on a stretcher.
And I remained standing in the middle of the dance floor in my wedding dress, staring at the doors long after he was gone.
Tears streamed down my face.
Someone placed a coat over my shoulders, but I barely felt it.
Karl was gone.
And suddenly, the idea of life without him felt impossible.
The Funeral
Later, a doctor officially confirmed what the paramedics had suspected.
Karl had died of a heart attack.
Four days later, I buried my husband.
I arranged the entire funeral myself because there was nobody else to do it.
The only relative I managed to find in Karl’s contacts was a cousin named Daniel.
He showed up.
No one else from Karl’s family did.
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