However, the girl’s father was against this union. “You’ll disgrace the family!” he shouted, locking his daughter out.
The girl wrote letters, and the man waited at the gate, hoping for at least a glimpse. They were separated, forbidden to see each other, but their love did not fade.
They fought for the right to be together and, despite the resistance, achieved their goal: the wedding took place.
At 65, a man remarried, to his friend’s young daughter. But on their wedding night, as he was removing her wedding dress, he saw something terrible.
He was sixty-five.
He had long since resigned himself to the idea that he would spend his old age alone: five years earlier, his wife had passed away, and since then, he had returned to an empty house every evening.
