One day she pressed her wedding ring into Walter’s hand.
“If you ever find him,” she begged, “give this back and tell him I waited.”
But neither Elena nor Anton survived the war.
Walter kept the ring all those years out of respect for the love they shared—and because he had never forgotten the promise.
A few years before his death, after surgery, Walter asked Paul to try once more to find Elena’s family.
Paul searched.
But there was no one left.
With trembling hands, I opened Walter’s note.
“Edith,” it began.
“I always meant to tell you about this ring, but I never found the right moment.
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