Lonely Woman Installs Camera to See Who’s Been Leaving Baby Stuff on Her Doorstep Every Day – Story of the Day
A lonely, reclusive woman installs a video camera to discover who is leaving baby clothes and toys on her doorstep every day and it changes her life forever.
Marianne Reynolds answered the knock on her door, never realizing she was letting in heartbreak and despair. The two men waiting on her doorstep were wearing US Airforce dress uniforms and a sorrowful expression.
Even before they spoke, Marianne knew what they were going to say and she felt her knees fold under her and the baby in her belly kick in protest. Her husband was dead. He wouldn’t be coming home, after all, and he would never hold their child.
Marianne was stunned when the toys and baby clothes started showing up on her doorstep. | Source: Shutterstock.com
The following days were a blur to Marianne. The funeral, the servicemen presenting arms, and Jack’s coffin covered with the flag. She couldn’t pray or speak, all she could do was watch it all with burning eyes.
They gave her the flag folded into a tiny triangle and she wondered what she was supposed to do with it. Was it supposed to substitute her husband or was it some kind of a consolation prize?
That night, Marianne threw the flag into a corner, curled up on her bed, and wept. She dreamed that Jack was beside her holding her, kissing her tears away, telling her it was all a bad dream. And for a brief moment after she woke up, she believed the dream.
But her bed was empty, and the flag was crumpled on the floor. This was ner new reality. The baby slumbering inside her was forgotten, all she could think about was her pain at the loss of the only man she had ever loved.
Marianne and Jack had been best friends in primary school, and somehow when they were sixteen, that friendship had become something else, a love for life. He was her soulmate, her best friend, her best self — and she was his. Or had been.
Marianne was pregnant when her husband Jack died. | Source: Unsplash
Somehow it seemed to Marianne that her best self was dead and buried with Jack, and all that was left was a bitter woman who resented each sunrise. Once her compassionate leave was over, she went back to work and it was a disaster.
She had always been a dedicated therapist, but now she...