Hidden among the flowers was a crooked paper rose marked with a “J” and a note directing Mary to an old train station. There she met Adrian, James’s closest friend, who revealed that James had survived the attack but later died from his wounds after being captured.
Adrian admitted he had lied to Mary for fifty-six years, hiding both the truth about James’s final days and the location of his grave. Now dying himself, he finally took Mary to the cemetery where James had been buried.
Mary placed the fifty-six yellow roses on James’s grave and kept the handmade paper flower. That evening, she placed it beside their wedding photograph, realizing that although the truth had arrived decades late, James’s promise had finally found its way back to her.
