Writer Laura Murphy recounts travelling alone to Castellina in Chianti, the Tuscan village she and her fiancé Devon O'Grady had chosen for their honeymoon, after he died in her arms just a month before their wedding. The piece is a personal account of grief, love and loss, following through with a trip meant to be shared but taken in solitude at the hilltop palazzo where Devon had holidayed as a child.

Murphy traces the relationship back to early 2021 in St John's, Newfoundland, where the couple both grew up and worked at the same law firm — she on the 11th floor, he on the 12th. She recalls their first meeting, when a broken lift and a dead phone left her pounding on a locked stairwell door that Devon opened, earning her the nickname "Backpack Girl". The article describes their courtship over Friday drinks at the Salt House and an early invitation to watch a 5.02am summer sunrise, painting a portrait of Devon as kind, stylish and warmly popular before his sudden death.