A South Florida man is facing the unimaginable, going to sleep without his wife by his side after nearly four decades together and grappling with the moment a driver took her life while she attempted to cross a street in Hialeah .

A lifelong partnership ended suddenly

Gregorio Delgado tells CBS News Miami he and his wife, 61-year-old Delia Annet Delgado, were soulmates. "My wife of many, many years. How do you think I feel?" he said, shedding tears.

The couple met at a Miami dance club in the 1980s and were inseparable. "We did everything together. We were inseparable. She was everything," Delgado said.

The day it all changed

Delgado said he went out Monday morning to clean a family member's AC unit and asked Annet if she wanted to come along. She declined, saying she had to run a

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