Just a few days after a Mississippi man's wife of more than 60 years passed away he found a note written to him in her checkbook.
"Please don't cry because I died! Smile because I lived! Know that I'm in a happy place! Know that we will meet again! I'll see you then," Billie Breland, who died at age 83, wrote in a note to her husband Jimmy at some point before she passed.
A picture of the note was posted on Facebook by Breland's grandson, Cliff Sims, a local Alabama journalist. The note has since obtained more than 1,000 likes.
"She was an avid note writer," Simms wrote of Billie in an article on Yellow Hammer News. "We don't know exactly when she did it, but she left one final note tucked inside her checkbook - but this one wasn't for her, it was for my Grandaddy, and it perfectly sums up the hope and comfort that comes with knowing you'll meet again in eternity."
Breland, who's short-term memory had been fading for a few years, fell and broke her him after Thanksgiving when she was visiting family in Alabama. After her surgery her memory began deteriorating faster, she was often confused, had trouble recognizing longtime friends, and began experiencing occasional fainting spells, wrote Simms.
Her husband Jimmy sat by her side in the hospital every night until the day she died.
