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Secret Santa donates money to assist a widow in Idaho

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 6 Dec 23

An unnamed donor who lives in East Idaho who learned about a widow named Elise who lives in Aberdeen Idaho lost her husband Ken who died on November 1 from complications from surgery after Ken developed sepsis and he passed away...

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Goddess Lakshmi doesn't think widows to be inauspicious

Anindita Sengupta @aninditasen (18198) • Raurkela, India 9 Oct 22

Today is Lakshmi Puja. I just finished reading the 'Ashtatar Satnam' of Goddess Lakshmi which means the Goddess's 108 names. At the end of this religious scripture it's clearly written that whoever recites this pleases both...

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A bittersweet story from North Dakota

George B Vieto @Deepizzaguy (122070) • Lake Charles, Louisiana 6 Nov 21

Isadora Rose who is seven years of age is being praised as a young girl that has a heart of gold for finding a high school class ring that belonged to a former basketball player who passed away from asthma five years ago. Isadora...

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A Complicated Grief

Diana B. @BloggerDi (3121) • United States 29 Jul 20

I sort of disappeared from myLot for the past three weeks. I've spent some days in shock and traumatized, and I've been taking care of funeral arrangements, legal and financial matters and spending time with my family. My husband...

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Knocking on Heavens Door and a Sign from a Rose

Pearl Rosa @pearlrosa (139) • United States 18 Aug 19

Last fall had been 10 years since my husband passed away. My kids and I went to his grave site. We bought live purple roses for his favorite color. I also brought the pinwheel that had came from some flowers my daughter got when...

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A widow's plight

Nnaemeka @mydanods (6513) • Nigeria 9 Feb 18

Burials remind us of how fragile the human condition is. When a husband dies, the widow doesn’t only think of the loss that she is faced with, but also the loneliness and social isolation ahead of her. Here in Nigeria, some...

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A Warning To Dirty Old Men (DOM)

julito @antonbunot (11146) • Calgary, Alberta 8 Nov 17

In Pennsylvania (USA) a 33-year-old woman, a motorcycle mechanic, shot her 64-year-old sugar daddy on the face after he broke up with her. This is a friendly reminder to all men especially the old ones - If ever you decide to...

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Wild Oats~ Movie Review

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 24 Jun 17

This movie is from 2016 and is so funny. Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Lange and Demi Moore. Shirley is past 80(83 to be exact) and looks great. Jessica is about 68 now. Some other oldsters I won't go into but was good to see them....

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I can't enjoy this holiday

ShannyBananny @shaggin (74988) • United States 23 Dec 16

My heart aches so much. After 5 years it should not hurt so much to think about my husbands death. I can't enjoy this upcoming holiday. I am so full of anxiety and sadness. It literally makes me sick to my stomach. My daughter...

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SINDOORAM IN INDIAN TRADITION

s sivasubrahmanyam @shivamani10 (11035) • Hyderabad, India 6 Jun 16

Sindoor or Sindooram is traditionally applied along the parting line of a woman's hair or as a dot on the forehead. This is a mark of married women in Hinduism. A Single woman wears dots in varied colors but does not wear sindoor....

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Widows ...

s sivasubrahmanyam @shivamani10 (11035) • Hyderabad, India 21 Apr 16

A Widow is a lady whose spouse died and Widower is a man in that situation. This is not a term confined to India only but has a global prevalence always governed by the prevalent social customs, traditions and practices when...

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Life is tough for a new widow

Penny Medlock @badpenny (739) • Lancaster, Texas 3 Apr 16

I met my late husband in 2009 at a homeless shelter. They said we wouldn't last, but we were bonded by God, and he lost his battle with cancer 3/15/2016. I don't sleep much now, and loneliness fills my days. He wanted me...

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My annual pre-Thanksgiving breakdown

ShannyBananny @shaggin (74988) • United States 23 Nov 15

My husband died March 21, 2011. The Thanksgiving after he died was the hardest holiday for me to get through of all the holidays during the year. I will never understand why it was like that but it is the same thing every year....

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My husband would have been 33 today

ShannyBananny @shaggin (74988) • United States 1 Oct 15

Today my husband if he were still alive would be 33 today. He died suddenly when he was 28 of a very rare heart disease called Lymphocytic Myocarditis. He died March 22, 2011. Some of you might remember my post on here years ago...

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Would you live with a ghost?

celticeagle @celticeagle (189792) • Boise, Idaho 24 Aug 15

I watched The Ghost and Mrs. Muir again recently. Gene Tierney and George Sanders, Rex Harrison. It is the story of a widow set in the 19th century who moves out of her in-laws home after her husband dies. She chooses to buy a...

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experience of becoming widow

extremefun4fun @extremefun4fun (2908) • India 19 Mar 13

some people says that having a bad husband is better than living without man. they used to think that lady always need a man othewise society will not give that much respect to an alone lady... How do you think and agree with it?...

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I have a theory about long-married widows.

Barbara Radisavlejvic @bagarad (14283) • Paso Robles, California 31 Dec 12

I mentioned in another discussion that a woman in our congregation was just widowed after 52 years of a happy marriage. Her husband was an extravert and she is an introvert. I also mentioned I'd like to get to know her better. My...

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If you were the one left behind

dorannmwin @dorannmwin (36392) • United States 3 Dec 12

The other night, my husband started a discussion with me about what would become of him if something were to happen to me. I mean, it is inevitable, eventually, one of the two of us will pass away and leave the other as a widow or...

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Being A Widow, is it a matter or not?

margies @margies (128) • Indonesia 28 Nov 12

is it a matter , if you guys, have a girlfriend who has married before and get divorced and she has child too? Can you received her past? And take her as who she is. Or maybe you don't want to get serious relation? My friends ask...

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Marriage

me @dfollin (27267) • United States 11 Aug 11

It has been my understanding that if a spouse had been believed to be dead and ruled deceased and the living spouse remarried and later that the assumed dead spouse was found to be alive that the marriage the living spouse had...

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