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In 1983, Brian Foster came back from the military and married me. He had one condition. I had to give up my job opportunity and hand it over to his adopted sister, Emily Brooks. I spent thirty years stuck in our hometown like a living widow. I took care of his parents until they died, and then I finally got the chance to visit him at his base. That was when I found out our marriage was nothing but a lie. He had two kids with Emily. They looked about thirty years old, and when I saw them, I lost it. I confronted Brian, and we had a massive fight. He threw me in prison for "destroying a military marriage." I got sick from years of exhausting labor, and I died behind bars. When I opened my eyes again, I was back at the moment Brian proposed to me. He said the exact same words as before. "I can marry you, but you need to give your job to Emily. She needs this opportunity more than you do." My first thought was simple. I wanted to claw his lying face to shreds.