Wearing a clean but worn dress, she nervously and sincerely said, "I will love you all my life, and always be with you."
I believe that when she said these words, she was filled with all the love in her heart.
However, later on, her teenage crush reappeared in her life with a broken and fragile image due to his family's downfall, shattering the insurmountable barrier between her and him.
The faint smell of tobacco mixed with the scent of disinfectant...
More overtime work and missed appointments than before...
Her sudden proposal to sleep in separate rooms, and the frequent impatience she showed towards me and our son.
Many such subtle changes indicated that our marriage was on the brink of collapse.
But I trusted her too much.
So much so that when I discovered the truth, there was less than ten thousand dollars left in our household account.
Nearly a million dollars had vanished without a trace.
Both of us came from poor families and understood better than anyone what money meant.
A million bucks is no trust fund for some rich folks, or no yearly cost for some spoiled brat studying overseas, or no big tip to make some internet star grin.
It means some security for our parents' health.