The Wife He Left Behind

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Gojo lived as though grief were his destiny.
From the earliest days of his youth, he believed himself built to endure-to survive long after his wife was gone, to carry her memory through years she would never see. He prepared for that loneliness with a quiet devotion, teaching himself how to breathe in a world without her before such a world existed.

But fate does not honor preparation.
Like Patroclus, who armed himself believing Achilles would be the one to fall, Gojo mistook love for foresight. He never imagined that it would be his life cut short, that the future he feared would belong to her instead.