George Hochsprung never imagined he would outlive his wife.
Twenty years her senior, he had planned to leave behind a “dream” home for Dawn Hochsprung — the 47-year-old principal of Sandy Hook Elementary who, after telling two teachers to take cover, rushed massacre madman Adam Lanza.
She was cut down trying to disarm him.
“She could’ve avoided that,” George told CNN yesterday. “But she didn’t; I knew she wouldn’t. So I’m not angry anymore. I’m just very sad.”
He recalled how they had “built this beautiful house in the Adirondacks, our dream.”
“It was going to be Dawn’s house, because I was going to die [first],” her husband told the cable network.
The couple put extra bedrooms in the retreat so their children and 11 grandchildren could comfortably visit after his death.
“And now it’s me,” he said. “I don’t think I can do that.”
They met years ago when Dawn was an assistant principal in Danbury, Conn., where George was a seventh-grade science teacher.
They bonded over their love of sailing — but he still had to ask Dawn five times for her hand in marriage before she finally said yes, he recalled.