Word: widowing
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Sherialyn Byrdsong, the widow of Ricky Byrdsong, echoed Shepard's criticism of society but said the only way to stop hate crimes from occurring was to "return...
...American widow with six daughters will have a tough time trying to stay in interior China. Already, the local authorities, after sending the deputy mayor to offer condolences, are making life somewhat difficult. Foreigners visiting the Morrisons are carefully vetted, apparently to limit publicity about the murder, which can only embarrass China as it tries to polish its international image to help its bid to bring the Olympics to Beijing in 2008. "We like her very much, but the Christian woman should return to America," says a local policeman. For now, Valori sits quietly in the tiny apartment she wants...
...brought his body home for burial and was sent to her in-laws to be "cleansed." This common practice gives a dead husband's brother the right, even the duty, to sleep with the widow. Thandiwe tested negative for HIV in 1998, but if she were positive, the ritual cleansing would have served only to pass on the disease. Then her in-laws wanted to keep her two daughters because their own children had died, and marry her off to an old uncle who lived far out in the bush. She fled...
...news comes in on the full tide. Anne Morrow Lindbergh, a lovely writer, the widow of Charles Lindbergh, dies in her house in Vermont. She slips off and away, having lingered some years already in the kingdom adjacent to death, the region of intermittent blankness where Ronald Reagan passes his 90th birthday. She was 94. Uncoaxed, the lives of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Ronald Reagan come flashing before my eyes - a cascade of images, quick-cut and all out of sequence, the celebrity American Century tumbling through the mind. It must be the moon...
...grew to like the kid. He was a widow's only son, just 20 and too scared of his mother's wrath to embark on the gun-and-death lifestyle that many of his friends had chosen. But he was tempted. "In the end everyone will have to answer to Allah and they will have to explain what they did for their religion," he explained. "I don't want to be left with nothing...