Word: widowing
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...sibling can do to those who are left behind. When my elder sister died suddenly, the effect was devastating. Losing your only sibling is much like losing half of yourself. If you lose your parents, you are an orphan; if you lose your spouse, you are a widow; but there is no term to describe a sibling who becomes an only child because of a cruel twist of fate...
...Then the search of local hospitals began. Finally, just before dawn, he and his friends found the man they were looking for amid the pandemonium at the Sion Hospital morgue. Shah had to identify the body. "It was horrible," he says. "I can't describe it." Then the widow had to be called, and a funeral arranged. If Shah knew the steps, it's because he had seen it all before. He lost five colleagues in 1993, when terrorists blew up the Bombay stock exchange and 12 other targets, killing...
...JOLIE WIDOW...
...Smith is going to the Middle East. ANGELINA JOLIE'S humanitarian and mom credentials made her a good fit to play Mariane Pearl, widow of reporter Daniel Pearl, in A Mighty Heart, an adaptation of Mariane's book about his abduction and beheading in Pakistan in 2002. A producer, one Brad Pitt, told PEOPLE, "We hope the film can increase understanding between people of all faiths." If anything can unite us, it's that hot chick from Tomb Raider...
...deserves to be called the fifth Beatle? Martin, now 80, had with his son Giles confected the elaborate and imaginative soundscape for Love. When the extravaganza officially opens Friday night, the Martins will be joined by the surviving Beatles, Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr, and by George Harrison's widow Olivia and John Lennon's widow Yoko Ono. My guess is that they'll be pleased and moved...