The grief that settled in my heart after my husband’s passing was so profound that I couldn’t imagine my life without him by my side. When I lost him, I was eight months pregnant, and the though of my daughter never meeting her dad crashed me even more. And then, one night the voice of my late husband filled my daughter’s room and I though I was going crazy.
When I received the fateful call that Jeremy was involved in a fatal car crash, my world collapsed.
“Please, officer,” I yelled at the person on the other end of the phone. “Tell me that’s not true. Please say my husband’s alive…”
Unfortunately, Jeremy passed away, and I didn’t even get to see his body. They told me the crash was so bad I wouldn’t even recognize what was left of him.
I was sad beyond what words can say, but I needed to be strong for my girl.
A month later, I gave birth to the most beautiful girl, Sophia.
Even though she was just a baby who didn’t understand anything, I told her stories about Jeremy, and about how much he would have loved her.
Two years have passed, and my pain still wouldn’t go away. I missed my husband more than anything.
Then, one night, as I put Sophia to bed and decided to read a book in the next room, I heard a familiar voice, that of my husband.
Chills ran down my spine. Was I going mad?
The door was locked, the windows were shut, and the house was unusually peaceful.
Before I could come to my senses, I heard it yet again. “I will love you forever.”
“Oh, my God. That’s Jeremy’s voice. Could he be… alive!?”
I rushed to Sophia’s room, and looked around. There was no one there. She was sleeping peacefully. Was I imagining things?
No. I wasn’t. Just as I was about to leave the room, I heard the voice one again. “I will love you forever.”
And then it hit me. It was the teddy bear my girl had pressed tightly to her chest.
My MIL, Gloria gave it to Sophia for her 2nd birthday.
In the morning, I called Gloria on the phone, demanding answers.
“Gloria, why did you do it?” I asked her.
“Did what, Kelly?” she asked back.
“The teddy bear, and Jeremy’s voice. I taught I was losing my mind, that I was going crazy. I even though my husband could be alive.”
Gloria said that every time Sophia asked about her dad, her heart broke. So, she decided to take a recording from our wedding video and have it sewn into the teddy bear.
“‘I love you forever,’ those were his wedding wows to you, Kelly,” Gloria said.
I knew Gloria meant the best, but I felt overwhelmed. However, I wasn’t angry or mad.
That evening, as Sophia went to sleep, I took the teddy bear and pressed it over and over again, listening to the sweet voice of my husband.
I knew he was looking at us from above.
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