“Good,” he replied. “I thought it was just me.”
We finished school one semester at a time. When our diplomas arrived, we stared at them like proof we’d survived.
A year later, Noah proposed—casually, in our kitchen, while I was cooking. I laughed, cried, and said yes.
The next morning, someone knocked.
A man in a dark coat stood at the door. Calm. Professional. He introduced himself as Thomas, an attorney, and said there was something we needed to know.
He handed us a letter.
It was from a man named Harold Peters.
Years earlier, Harold had fallen outside a grocery store. People walked past. Noah didn’t. He helped him up, waited with him, treated him like a person—not a problem.
Harold never forgot.
He had no family. No children. But he had a home, savings, and a lifetime of quiet gratitude. He left it all to Noah.
Not out of pity.
Out of thanks.
