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...went from being a daughter to being an orphan," says Brooks, now 54. "I was just shattered." Not only had she lost her last guardian of childhood memories, but she also suddenly felt childlike and needy, with no one to go to for help. "I was a single, working mom, and this was not a feeling I was proud of or wanted to share," she remembers. As she interviewed others who had lost parents for her book, Midlife Orphan: Facing Life's Changes Now That Your Parents Are Gone, Brooks realized that she was not alone in her conflicted feelings...
Settling estates can also stir up family feuds. "The distribution of the parental estate becomes the last statement of who Mom and Dad loved best," says psychologist Levy. "And it can be manifested in the most ridiculous objects: some spatula, perhaps--but it's the one Mom cooked pancakes with every Sunday morning...
Every summer while I was growing up, my parents took me to the Jersey shore, where I'd plug quarter after quarter into pinball machines. As a teenager attempting to evade Mom and Dad's sometimes overbearing attention, I'd bike to the local arcade and slam the same games. Even into my 30s, whenever I'd visit my folks, I'd drive to a nearby juke joint and shoot a few pins for old times' sake. But when I became an orphan this year at age 42, I also became an adult. I stopped playing pinball for good...
...left the restaurant. And instead of staying at the Four Seasons suite to savor the moment with friends and staff, Bush decided he just wanted to go home. He summoned the motorcade to take him and Laura and Mom and Dad back to the Governor's mansion to watch and wait and wonder. Jeb would later turn up there too. If George really came unglued at the prospect of losing, he would allow only his family...
...heralded by "the German giant of the media world" snapping up Napster, and promising to drastically change the way that the file sharing agent works. Rubalcava's ridiculous claim amounts to heralding the death of the home health care industry on the occasion of CVS buying out your local mom-and-pop drug store...