At 62, for the first time I decided to go on vacation alone, without my children. But when my daughter got this photo taken on the beach, she started screaming, “MOM, IMMEDIATELY LEAVE THIS MAN! YOUR LIFE IS IN DANGER!”

He said you were the most beautiful woman in the world. Then he was sad and told that you do not believe it anymore.

Tears rolled down my cheeks.

• He never told me that.
• He said, Margaret. It’s just you didn’t believe him.

I fell silent.

Daniel continued:

“One day Thomas told me that when you were young, you were carrying him on the back on the beach when he hurt his leg. You laughed so loudly that everyone around you was looking at you.

I smiled unwittingly.

Yeah. Yeah. I remembered.

We were only married then.

Thomas twisted his ankle, and I jokingly said I’d bring him on my back to the car.

At first he didn’t believe me.

And then he really climbed on my back.

I haven’t thought about it in years.