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celticeagle @celticeagle (189820) • Boise, Idaho 11 Jul

Mourning was a social obligation when black wardrobes came out, shutters were drawn and anything that even vaguely resembled joy was banished to the attack. And the black had to be matte, lifeless and without any decoration. It...

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Widowspeak Folklore

celticeagle @celticeagle (189820) • Boise, Idaho 1 Oct 24

A Widowspeak is a V-shaped hairline on the forehead portion of your head. Folklore would have you believe that this widowspeak could forecast an early widowhood. This belief may have originated in 18th-century England. Widows were...

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Our New Neighbor is a Widow

Kharla Jolly @kobesbuddy (78833) • East Tawas, Michigan 11 Aug 24

I just discovered that our next door neighbor(at the lot)became widowed in April, 2023. I graduated with her older sister, Sallie. It never entered my head what was going on. She is grieving over the loss of her...

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Wars should be fought only by senior citizens!!

JOSE VARKEY @jovy63 (19) 18 Mar 21

War is one of the most tragic occurrences on our planet. It not only costs young lives, taken away in the prime of their youth but also leaves behind widows and widowers, fatherless and motherless children, bereaved parents,...

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Daily Bible Study

Valerie J. Routhieaux @just4him (323168) • Green Bay, Wisconsin 16 May 19

Day 5 1 Timothy 5 1 Timothy 5:1 Rebuke not an elder, but intreat him as a father; and the younger men as brethren; 2 The elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, with all purity. 3 Honor widows that are widows indeed....

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Free Slice of Pie

Heather Echola @GardenGerty (169448) • United States 7 Apr 16

We found ourselves in a different town yesterday while running errands. We went to Village Inn for lunch. Since it was Wednesday, we each got a free slice of pie. That was the first really nice thing. Secondly, they brought us a...

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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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Windows Phone to Android??

Olonam @Olonam (870) • Philippines 25 Jul 12

So.. I have this old Windows phone.. I think it's on Windows Mobile 6 or something.. It's a Palm Treo 750 btw.. I was just wondering if there is any way I could like.. hack it.. I want to change the operating system to Android...

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How To Beat The I'm-Alone-at-Christmas Blues

Deborah L. Alten @gtargirl (5376) • United States 11 Dec 11

Some of us find ourselves alone at Christmas for one reason or another. I attended a Christmas luncheon at church yesterday and realized there were moms there who had lost children this year, others were widowed. One such widow...

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Senior Widow/widowers remarriage - will it work?

Always smiling @allknowing (153544) • India 11 Sep 10

Here in India there is a trend to encourage Senior widow/widowers remarriage. If the prospective partner is well known to either of them it could perhaps work. But trying to match couples is to my mind quite not the right thing to...

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Questions about travel--- trips planned? where?who with? how old will you be?

whiteheron @whiteheron (4222) • United States 23 Feb 10

A woman in her 70s just got back from vacation in India for two weeks and said that she went on a tour with four other people there and loved it. Another woman that I know is planning a trip to Ireland at the age of 69 with her...

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Village 'witches' beaten in India.Five women were paraded naked, beaten & forced

farazkh1 @farazkh1 (1153) • Pakistan 20 Oct 09

Five women were paraded naked, beaten and forced to eat human excrement by villagers after being branded as witches in India's Jharkhand state. Local police said the victims were Muslim widows who had been labelled as witches...

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Google

ivesyono @ivesyono (131) • Canada 20 May 09

What are the secret commands for Google? I know you can search a full site by putting site:(site name)(what ever you want to search) what are some others?

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Who is the most unselfish person that you know?

Rocketj1 @rocketj1 (6955) • United States 1 Dec 08

There is a wonderful widow named Pat who goes to my church that just recently retired. She could be selfishly spending all her time treating herself to all the wonderful retirement dreams that she has had. No one would expect her...

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True Religion, do you do this?

mom4kids @mom4kids (657) • Canada 28 Sep 08

The bible says that religion that God accepts is this: to look over orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted from the world. Do you do this?

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what is Creeping around our place at night?

Modestah @Modestah (11177) • United States 25 Jun 07

lurking in the shadows. *shiver My son just went out to lift some weights - as he does most every night. He likes to do it outside where it is cooler. Glad he saw what was on his weights before he put his hand to it! he knocked...

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Barbecues

Darkwing @Darkwing (21583) 22 Apr 07

The dreaded Barbecue Season is here again. I'm not a great lover of home barbecues or many others, really, and I do get annoyed at inconsiderate people. I live in a flat... my bedroom is at the back, facing onto the back garden...

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What do you do with your old clothes?

kfg20012003 @kfg20012003 (1037) • India 28 Feb 07

I usually donate it to orphange or to roadpickers who pass by my house.There are thousands of people who are not able to get a days meal .so lets donate to them

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Widows their life in past and present - Marriage after the death of husband

SHINE333 @SHINE333 (1284) • India 26 Feb 07

I think it is not an important matter now. As it was considered long years back in India. I had seen the movie "Water" were the lifes windows are projected. It realy made me to think about these women and life change to present....

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An overheard discussion of older women

artistmel2000 @artistmel2000 (438) • United States 20 Feb 07

When I was in college, I took an adult and aging psychology course. The professor was a popular teacher and students lined up to take his classes. In one particular class, the discussion centered around older people, senior...

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