Tag: My 7-Year-Old Daughter Tearfully Said

I used to think second chances were for other people — people with fewer scars, cleaner histories, lighter hearts. When Alex, my husband and the father of my baby girl, died suddenly of a heart attack while playing peekaboo with our daughter, my world ended in a single heartbeat. Grief hollowed me out, leaving only…

I met my fiancé, Richard, when my daughter, Natalie, was just four years old.   At the time, I had long stopped believing in second chances. Her father, my late husband, Alex, died from a sudden heart attack when Natalie was just one. One moment he was playing peekaboo on the living room floor, and…