Tag: Widower
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The Floodgates of Heaven Opened and the Rain Falleth
It’s been raining all day here. My bungalow is Noah’s Ark with just two creatures on board, the cat and I — unless I’m Noah, which is highly unlikely since Noah was 600 years old at the time.
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Spiritual comfort for the bereaved, 80-proof guaranteed
Alcohol is god’s gift to the inconsolable. If I may steal from an old joke: When people ask me if I have a drinking problem, I say, “No, I pretty well got it down.”
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The dead room
An elderly man lives alone in Upstate New York. An old friend halfway across the world sends him an email, acknowledging the man’s wife’s birthday. His wife died four days before Christmas.
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Indestructible atoms
He misses his wife—and always, every day, he misses his son. His son would be forty-eight now. Hard to believe. Twenty-five years of life he didn’t have.
Mary Saves the Day 