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- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- Introduction 1
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Part I: Prologue—Expectant Widows
- What We Were Afraid Of: A Memoir 17
- The Queen Has Spoken 29
- Living a Life 33
- Preparing for the Journey through Grief 41
- Deserted/Dumped for a Second Time 48
- From Pre-Widow to Merry Widow 52
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Part II: Recent Widows
- A Widow’s Notes: The First Six Months 65
- My Other Half 72
- The Cloak 78
- “The Most Precious Fit”: A Dialogue with C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed 88
- On Grief 98
- Wedding Rings 103
- The Afterlife of an Archive 110
- A Healing Garden 115
- You See, I Told You So! 117
- Yes, I Miss My Husband, but I’m Also Discovering the Pleasures of Living Alone 120
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Part III: Long-Time Widows
- The Grief Convention 127
- 10 Scary Things I Have Done since My Husband Died 133
- Being Alone 140
- Re-creating My Life 143
- Becoming Maggie 149
- Who I Am Revealed 155
- Losing the Artist, Living with His Art 159
- After the Aftermath 168
- Three Poems 170
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Part IV: Unique Takes or Digging Deeper
- Widow-to- Widow 175
- Parenting as a Widow 185
- Memories of a Widow’s Daughter 190
- Lost Acts . . . 199
- Dealing with Double Loss: Husband and Hearing 204
- Synchronicity and the Secular Mind 211
- Mourning American-Style 216
- The Rocks That Bind 219
- On Not Feeling Sad 224
- What They Don’t Tell You 229
- Nine Things Resilient People Do after Losing a Spouse or Partner 235
- Make Lemonade?! 243
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Part V: Epilogue
- The Missing Vow 255
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 259
- ARTIST’S STATEMENT 261
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 263
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS vii
- Introduction 1
-
Part I: Prologue—Expectant Widows
- What We Were Afraid Of: A Memoir 17
- The Queen Has Spoken 29
- Living a Life 33
- Preparing for the Journey through Grief 41
- Deserted/Dumped for a Second Time 48
- From Pre-Widow to Merry Widow 52
-
Part II: Recent Widows
- A Widow’s Notes: The First Six Months 65
- My Other Half 72
- The Cloak 78
- “The Most Precious Fit”: A Dialogue with C. S. Lewis’s A Grief Observed 88
- On Grief 98
- Wedding Rings 103
- The Afterlife of an Archive 110
- A Healing Garden 115
- You See, I Told You So! 117
- Yes, I Miss My Husband, but I’m Also Discovering the Pleasures of Living Alone 120
-
Part III: Long-Time Widows
- The Grief Convention 127
- 10 Scary Things I Have Done since My Husband Died 133
- Being Alone 140
- Re-creating My Life 143
- Becoming Maggie 149
- Who I Am Revealed 155
- Losing the Artist, Living with His Art 159
- After the Aftermath 168
- Three Poems 170
-
Part IV: Unique Takes or Digging Deeper
- Widow-to- Widow 175
- Parenting as a Widow 185
- Memories of a Widow’s Daughter 190
- Lost Acts . . . 199
- Dealing with Double Loss: Husband and Hearing 204
- Synchronicity and the Secular Mind 211
- Mourning American-Style 216
- The Rocks That Bind 219
- On Not Feeling Sad 224
- What They Don’t Tell You 229
- Nine Things Resilient People Do after Losing a Spouse or Partner 235
- Make Lemonade?! 243
-
Part V: Epilogue
- The Missing Vow 255
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 259
- ARTIST’S STATEMENT 261
- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 263