The passing away of a loved one is always difficult, if not almost impossible, to endure!

The passing away of a loved one is always difficult, if not almost impossible, to endure, especially after many years lived with that person. A man from Johannesburg was convinced of this immediately after his wife died of cancer.

But in years to come, the man will have the surprise of his life, the last surprise his deceased wife had given him.

Before she died, the woman shared with her husband her last wish: she desperately wanted the plants in the bathroom to be taken care of even after her death, for this reason, she asked her husband to promise to water them daily.

The man took his wife’s last wish very seriously, and every day he watered the plants in the bathroom, this happened for years, and the man made sure that the plants always looked perfect.

The surprise came only a few years later when the man decided to move out of the house where he had lived with his wife.

Because the plants in the bathroom reminded him of the love of his life and because he had made a promise to her on her deathbed, the man did not want to part with them.

Wanting to pack them to transport them safely, the man had a big surprise.

Specifically, he found that the flowers he watered every day were, in fact, plastic and that it was all just a joke from his wife.

This discovery made him cry, then laugh out loud, and he realized that his wife’s intention was to make him laugh and forget about the sadness caused by her death.

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