I Raised My Daughter Alone for 18 Years and Thought I Knew Everything About Our Family – Then a Woman Outside Her Hospital Room Told Me the Truth I Wasn’t Ready For The hospital called two weeks after my daughter turned 18 to tell me she’d collapsed at work. When I reached her room, a woman who looked exactly like my dead wife was standing outside the door, holding my daughter’s baby blanket. What happened next shattered everything I thought I knew.