Woman Is Certain Her Husband Died in Car Accident until 14 Years Later He Delivers Her a Parcel — Story of the Day
A woman believes the father of her child had passed away in a car crash, but 14 years later he knocks on her door to deliver a parcel.
Sarah Grant was a week away from the happiest day of her life. She was about to marry the love of her life even though her domineering mother, Janet, was dead set against it.
Nevertheless, Sarah had stuck to her guns, and with her father’s support, she’d faced down her mother and won for the first time in her life.
When the phone rang, Sarah answered with a happy “Hello!” but the voice on the other side of the line dimmed her light forever.
Sarah was speechless when she saw the delivery man’s face | Source: Shutterstock.com
The voice on the other end of the line belonged to the town’s sheriff, and he was telling her that Jim was dead. “No!” Sarah screamed. “You liar!” Then her father was there, putting his arms around her.
That afternoon, Sarah went to the coroner’s office with her father. She wanted to see Jim, she had to. “He’s not dead, daddy,” she kept saying. “I’d feel it if he was. I KNOW he’s alive. That man is not my Jim!”
The sheriff didn’t want to let her identify the body which was badly burned, but he finally allowed her to view it. The man on the gurney was unrecognizable, but around his neck, Sarah saw something she recognized.
That was when her knees folded, and she would have fallen to the floor if her dad hadn’t held her up. It was Jim’s pendant, the pendant Sarah had given him on their first anniversary.
Sarah was in love with Jim and was determined to marry him | Source: Unsplash
For the next six weeks, Sarah lay in her bed, hardly eating. Then she realized she was pregnant. She was carrying Jim’s baby! This baby was precious, it was the last gift from Jim — a little bit of him to make her life bearable.
As soon as her mother found out she was very upset. First, she tried to pressure Sarah into ‘solving the problem’ and Sarah told her, “My baby is not a problem to be solved.”
Then she tried to pressure Sarah into marrying the son of one of her closest friends, a young man who’d always been in love with Sarah. He was the right kind of...