Lord Valentino | The Netizen

My wife has an old phone. No SIM card. No WiFi. No use. And she has charged it every single night for 8 years. Never skipped once. Not when she was sick. Not when we fought. Not even the night our daughter was born. I always thought she was just sentimental. Last night, the power went out at 2 AM. I woke up and her side of the bed was empty. I found her on the kitchen floor, in the dark. She was cupping that old phone like a candle. Her thumb kept lighting up the screen. 100%. Still 100%. She kept checking anyway. “Hey… it’s just an old phone,” I said. She didn’t look up. Then she said…