Old Man Meets Homeless Girl at Wife’s Grave, Years Later She Inherits All His Property – Story of the Day

When Stephen saw flowers on his late wife’s grave, he wanted to know who planted them. Finally, he discovered it was a young woman named Anna, who told him a moving story about his wife’s kind gesture. Then Stephen decided to surprise her and give her more than she ever imagined.

You expect this to happen when you marry someone, but it’s always an abstract notion far away into the future, Stephen thought about death as he looked at his wife’s grave. Emma had been his high school sweetheart, and they got married right after graduating from Baton Rouge High School in Louisiana. She was the most perfect and proper Southern woman.

Many of his friends said how lucky he had been to earn her affections. Stephen was grateful for that and looked forward to a lifetime of happiness with her.

However, they soon went through trying times because they couldn’t have children, and after years of doctor’s visits and treatments that put a strain on Emma’s body, Stephen decided to stop. He told her that they were enough for each other and life was too short to suffer like this.

His decision worked, as they lived happily and traveled around the country enjoying their love. But at 65, Emma was diagnosed with late-stage cancer and died a few months later. We will all die in the end, but that day came faster than I ever imagined, Stephen continued his musings, feeling more alone than ever.

It had been a year since her passing, and he visited her grave once a week, still mourning her loss. Stephen was so immersed in his thoughts during one visit that he almost didn’t notice a new set of roses planted on the grass next to her grave. He frowned at them and wondered if the cemetery gardener did it.

Emma’s grave was away from others, so it had to be intentional. They were Emma’s favorite flowers, after all. But when he asked the person in charge, they had no idea what Stephen was talking about.

“I’m sorry, Mr. Davis. The gardener never plants new flowers near the graves,” the attendant of the cemetery assured him.

Maybe, it was a kind soul, he wondered. Regardless, Stephen decided to come every day and see if he could find whoever did it. Five days later, he discovered a young woman tending some of the roses.

“Excuse me, miss. Are...