She had seen me at a university engineering presentation.
I was demonstrating an inexpensive monitoring device designed for small rural hospitals.
An investor had asked why I wasn’t developing something more profitable.
I had answered that a hospital with limited resources deserved reliable equipment just as much as a wealthy one.
Nora wrote that she remembered those words.
She had wanted to meet the man who said them.
I laughed through my tears.
Of all the things I had said in my life, those were the words that brought her to me.
Then I reached the second page.
I didn’t tell you about the money because I was afraid it would bring the life you had escaped back to our doorstep.
She wrote that my father’s warnings had frightened her when she was younger.
Even after we married, she worried that he would discover her ownership and use it to pressure me.
