Woman Eats Last Meal Her Husband Ever Made, 2 Years After His Death, to 'Connect with Him Again' (Exclusive)

• Two years ago, Sabrina Chae lost her husband, Tony Song, to an unexpected heart attack

• Tony showed his love through food, so Sabrina froze the last meal he made her before his untimely death, Japanese curry

• Now, Sabrina is planning to move, so she decided to have the curry as the last meal she ever ate in their home

A young widow shared a deeply personal moment on TikTok recently: eating the last meal her late husband had cooked for her.

The Japanese curry wasn’t just any meal, but a frozen memory preserved for more than two years after his sudden death from cardiac arrest in December 2022.

Sabrina Chae and her husband Tony Song were together for seven years and married for more than two. “Tony was someone who had a heart of gold, like very childlike, but in a way that’s very fun and pure,” Sabrina recalls exclusively to PEOPLE. “He had a love for food and was such a talented person.”

Following Tony’s death, the act of freezing the curry was initially an impulsive decision. “After I got back from the hospital after Tony passed, the curry was still sitting out because we had eaten it a few hours prior,” Sabrina explains.

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“My initial reaction was just pack and store that curry,” she continues. “I had no idea what else to do, and I was just trying to keep myself busy.”

Her decision to finally eat the curry was far from a light one. But as she was preparing to move from their home, Sabrina thought this would be a fitting last meal.

“I intentionally kind of set it aside to be one of the final meals that I would eat in the house because I felt like that would be really special for me,” Sabrina shares. “I was able to connect with Tony again before I actually left that house that we had built together.”

Reflecting on eating the meal, Sabrina recalls feeling Tony’s love in a dish.

“It wasn’t just me eating something that he had made with his own hands, but it was also me saying goodbye to this meal that he did make, and me also moving on to this next stage of my life," she shares.

Tony’s love language, in part, was food, Sabrina says. “He was a much better cook than I was,” she says with a laugh. “He loved food, he loved cooking, and he could genuinely make anything that I was craving.”

Now, Sabrina is embarking on a new chapter in New York City, a place she and Tony had always dreamed of living together.

Her decision to move at this stage in her grief is a way to take a step toward healing and self-discovery, she says. “I was feeling like I needed to have a change of scenery, because I felt almost a little stuck.”

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Sabrina’s journey with healing and navigating grief has become public through her TikTok account, which she initially used to document the couple's union. “I really wanted to capture mine and Tony’s relationship and be able to have something to look back on in the future,” she shares.

After Tony’s death, it became a way for her to connect with others who have also been in the same situation. “I really needed an outlet to share,” Sabrina says. “One of the platforms I could share was TikTok where I could put my thoughts into the universe and not feel judged.”

Through her vulnerability, Sabrina hopes to reshape perceptions of grief. “I wish that people understood that grief is not something you can overcome and will go away one day. Grief is a lifelong journey,” she emphasizes.

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“Grief is also about celebrating life and celebrating the people that we’ve lost, and it’s about healing, and it’s about growing as a person,” she adds.

With this new move, Sabrina is embracing the unknown. “I’m hoping to be less afraid of the future and be less afraid of my life after losing Tony,” she shares. “My chapter in New York is me being more open minded to whatever is out there for me like Tony was.”

Tapping into Tony’s adventurous spirit, Sabrina hopes she can rediscover herself again, adding: “I’m just trying to understand who I am besides being a widow … I’m finally getting to know myself again, and falling in love with life once again.”

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