Word: widowing
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...SENTENCED. MICHAEL SKAKEL, 41, to 20 years to life in prison for the 1975 murder of his teenage neighbor Martha Moxley; in Norwalk, Connecticut. Skakel, nephew of Robert F. Kennedy's widow Ethel, testified for the first time on the day of sentencing, tearfully saying he was innocent. During the trial, a prosecution witness testified that Skakel had told him: "I'm going to get away with murder, because I'm a Kennedy...
...flesh out the intimacies of Sept. 11, Springsteen had to do some reporting. Stacey Farrelly's husband Joe was a fire fighter with Manhattan Engine Co. 4 and, as his obituaries noted, a lifelong Springsteen fan. Recalls his widow: "At the beginning of October, I was home alone and, uh, heavily medicated. I picked up the phone, and a voice said, 'May I please speak to Stacey? This is Bruce Springsteen.'" They talked for 40 minutes. "After I got off the phone with him, the world just felt a little smaller. I got through Joe's memorial and a good...
...face") before transitioning to the mind of a woman who lost her husband in the Pentagon ("I brush your cheek with my fingertips/ I taste the void upon your lips)." The first verse was inspired by the newspapers, the second by a phone conversation Springsteen had with a Washington widow. The song ends with the realization that the afterlife is no solace to the living...
...while there may be more ways for boomers to hook up these days than there were years ago, many of them still find it painful even to contemplate dating after being with one person for decades, as Brothers points out. This is especially true of those who are newly widowed versus those who are divorced and may have been looking to leave their marriage for a while. "No matter what you do," says Martha Parry, 65, a widow and retired insurance-agency owner in Oakdale, N.Y., "it's hard to get used to anyone else after being married...
Gale Shamama, 61, a widow and guidance counselor from Hollywood, Fla., took a stab at meeting someone on the Net through JDate.com a website for Jewish singles. But in her experience, the appealing and respectable men she sought were not easy to locate. "I recently spoke with someone I found through the Internet who was kind of obnoxious and crude," Shamama says. "I'd much rather go out for dinner and a movie with my close female friends than talk to someone like that...