After Losing Wife, Husband Finds Photo She Left On Her Phone
John Polo lost the love of his life to a rare, terminal cancer. Her name was Michelle. One week after she died, John was lying in bed, totally devastated, when he stumbled across a photo on her phone, which she never intended for him to see.John Polo and his wife, Michelle. (Photo Credit: John Polo/Better Not Bitter Widower/Facebook)
“I met the love of my life, Michelle, at a young age, and we dated in High School for one year. I fell madly in love with her,” John Polo explains on his blog, Better Not Bitter Widower. “After eight years apart we reunited and planned to spend the rest of our lives together, alongside Michelle’s amazing daughter,” he continues.
Sadly, their fairy tale would not last. “Two years after our reunion, Michelle was diagnosed with an extremely rare and aggressive cancer,” John writes. “So rare in fact, that we were told when you consider what type of cancer it was, and where it developed, there is only one case a year in the world of what Michelle had. Michelle fought valiantly for two and a half years before taking her last breath.”John Polo and his wife, Michelle (Photo Credit: John Polo/Better Not Bitter Widower/Facebook)
A week after saying goodbye to his beautiful bride, John was lying in bed under the crushing weight of his grief, when he came across a photo on Michelle’s phone, which he had never seen before. It moved him to tears.
John recently shared his beautiful story on Facebook, along with the photo of Michelle, which he had found on her phone that fateful day. “That’s my wife,” he wrote. “In her wedding dress. A wedding dress that I never got to see her in. We were married at the courthouse a few days before her first surgery was scheduled to take place. We rushed there. To become man and wife. Not knowing if she would make it out of the surgery alive,” John explained.
