called for help, and stayed beside her, holding his phone so she could see the light and promising he wouldn’t leave her. Before collapsing, he gave her his phone and whispered, “If I don’t make it, tell my wife.” He died trying to save her life. I stayed with Emily until her family arrived, and since then, we’ve grown close. She was the last person to see my husband alive, and now she’s helping me understand the man he was when nobody was watching—a man whose final act was to
The Last Thing My Husband Did Before He Died…