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I almost died in the Colorado mountains. I got bitten by a rattlesnake trying to save my wife and her first love from a flash flood. The doctors barely pulled me back from the brink. I lay in the ICU for a month. My wife, Claire, didn't visit me once. Instead, I saw her Instagram post—she bought him a million-dollar Ferrari. I called her for the ninety-ninth time, only to hear Adrian's voice on the other end. "Claire, I slipped in the bathroom. Come help me up." My heart finally died. I hung up the phone and called my wealthy, formidable grandmother. "I want to come home." But after I walked away for good, she came crawling back, begging like a madwoman. Because without me, she was nothing.