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On the day of our engagement, the building across from my fiancé's home burst into flames. He bolted for the stairs, desperate to save his childhood sweetheart trapped inside. But the fire was already raging, and firefighters were swarming the complex. I stopped him from going. Later, we married. Yet he spent the years caring for his childhood sweetheart whose face was destroyed in the fire. I lived alone for more than three decades and ended up with no children. When illness finally took me, he pulled out my oxygen tube. He asked, "Thalia, were you ever happy in this life? "If you hadn't stopped me that day, Vita wouldn't have been scarred for life." When I opened my eyes again, I had time travelled to our engagement day. "Vita is my friend," he said, "I'm going to save her." I urged him, "You should hurry!"