While I was lying in a hospital bed, Brandon was conspicuously absent. Friends and colleagues visited, offering their support and flowers, but the man I had vowed to spend my life with was nowhere to be seen. It was during this lonely period that I learned through a mutual friend that Brandon had, without my knowledge, filed for divorce. The shock was compounded when I later discovered he had married another woman—someone he had apparently been seeing while I was battling my illness.
