Five years ago, a drunk driver hit me on a dark stretch of road. I don\u2019t remember the impact itself\u2014only fragments. Screeching tires. The taste of blood. The feeling of slipping away. What I do remember clearly is a stranger\u2019s voice, steady and close, telling me to stay awake while he held my hand and waited for the ambulance.<\/p>\n
That man was Ryan.<\/p>\n
The doctors later told me I wouldn\u2019t have survived without him. I woke up in the hospital to a body I barely recognized and a future I couldn\u2019t imagine. My right leg had been amputated below the knee. Everything I thought my life would be\u2014movement, independence, ease\u2014was suddenly gone.<\/p>\n
He visited every day. He learned how to help me transfer from bed to chair, how to make me laugh when I hated my reflection, how to sit with me when words were useless. He celebrated tiny victories no one else noticed. When I learned to balance again, he cried harder than I did.<\/p>\n
With him, I didn\u2019t feel broken. I felt chosen.<\/p>\n
So when he proposed, I said yes without a second thought.<\/p>\n
When I came back into the bedroom, Ryan was sitting on the edge of the bed, staring at the floor.<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t look nervous. He looked heavy. Like someone who had been holding his breath for years and was finally running out of air.<\/p>\n
He swallowed hard. \u201cI need to tell you something. I should\u2019ve told you a long time ago. I can\u2019t start our marriage like this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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