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70Why I Can't Stop Thinking About The Song "If Ever I Would Leave You."
My husband died suddenly on 9 February 2009. He wasn't sick. We'd had a lovely day together. We kissed and he put his arm around me. I put my head in its usual place, his shoulder. We always went to...
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88Memory Quilts - Tangible Solace During Grief
on the back burner, my own Husband Quilt is slowly getting done. Several weeks ago I wrote a hub about my Husband Quilt. It became a hubnugget of which I felt very humble, but it turned into something...
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52What the Dragon Sees - Grief As Prose
This hub is to mark the two and a half month passage of time since my husband's untimely death. It is for me. It is for anyone who has suffered a devastating loss. Laments are meant to be shared if for...
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53"It's Fair Weather Today So Where Are All My Friends?"
I cannot remember where I saw the expression that titles this hub but it has stuck with me for all these years. On more occasions than I'd like to say, it has proven out to be true. Fair weather...
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65The Saving Graces of Carmen Sophia and Scootie Wootums
I have two dogs, Scottish terriers. Both have been the saving graces of this fall from grace my own life has taken. My husband died suddenly, so frighteningly sudden, exactly six months ago today. It...
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57THE DEATH OF A FATHER
It's been a few days since my father died. I did not tell anyone about it when I first found out, except my six-year old daughter. The news meant nothing to her. This was the grandfather she never knew, just...
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55Poetry From an Anguished Soul
first of all, i'm not a poet. i studied it but the gift fails me. i only write poetry when my feelings are too painful to speak and too deep for silence. i miss my husband. i'm still counting the...
7 comments69Dead Like Me or The Inner Workings of Grief
grief has caught in a strangle hold and hasn't let go yet. sewing all day. i'm tired. i have read other widows' and widowers' blogs and know that grief can and will try to bury you. i also know that...
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68Poetry for the Dragon Upon the Occasion of Our Anniversary
in the language of flowers, the weeping willow speaks of grief. ~ googled image You are a man of strong desiresa man in which hope thrives and confidence lives.I was a woman for whom wishes never came true,a...
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65This Is As Good As It Gets ~ Grief Stricken Questions of Faith
My husband died. Suddenly. Horribly. I will always be able to recall the image of his face at the moment when I knew there was nothing anyone could do. I was losing him and there was nothing I, or...
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