Woman writes over 500 diary pages to her late husband

At the end of the year, while everywhere was filled with a bustling atmosphere of reunion, Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong Mai (66 years old, Cau Giay, Hanoi) traveled dozens of kilometers to visit her late husband's grave.

Mr. Cuong's grave (Mrs. Mai's husband) is located in a cemetery in Hoa Binh. Not only during the year-end grave-sweeping season, whenever she has free time, she comes to this quiet place to confide in her deceased husband.

"The person who should be busy with me right now, enjoying the atmosphere of the days before Tet, is lying on the ground there," Mrs. Mai said, choking up as she looked at her husband's portrait.

Ms. Nguyen Thi Hong Mai (66 years old, Cau Giay, Hanoi) (Photo: Gia Doan).

On a cold winter morning in the North, Mrs. Mai sat quietly by her husband's grave and mumbled words of love and longing to her soul mate.

Notably, the 66-year-old woman still keeps the habit of bringing the diary pages she wrote for her husband while he was still in the hospital to his grave and then sitting there reading them.

After reading, she burned the diary pages as if to send her longing to the other world. In the past 2 years, 5 diaries have been written and nearly 600 diary pages have been sent like that.

"He was a delicate, emotional person and especially loved me very much," Ms. Mai described her late husband.

Unlike many other families, Mrs. Mai sat quietly alone by her husband's grave.

Sharing with Dan Tri reporter, Mrs. Mai choked up and said that she discovered that Mr. Cuong had a pancreatic tumor in early 2022. During the time her husband was in the hospital and in a deep coma, she began writing the first pages of her diary.

Many families buy kumquat and peach blossoms to place on their grandparents' and ancestors' graves during Tet (Photo: Gia Doan).

"During that time, I always hoped and waited for him to wake up so I could read to him, but he never woke up," Ms. Mai choked.

Since her husband passed away, Mrs. Mai has kept the habit of only bringing flowers and some diary pages when visiting his grave. After reading them, she burns them instead of burning votive paper money.

Asked about the reason for "turning" her diary into a diary, Mrs. Mai confided that she considered Mr. Cuong both her husband and her confidant. When her husband was no longer around, all her thoughts, moods, joys and sorrows could only be found on the pages.

"Every time I finish writing, I feel better and can move on," Ms. Mai shared.

Source: https://dantri.com.vn/an-sinh/nguoi-phu-nu-viet-hon-500-trang-nhat-ky-gui-nguoi-chong-qua-co-20240128104321681.htm