Widowdom

Taking a hoe this morning, (could find no spade but the ace,) I exhumed a toadess, perhaps a widow, living all by herself, in underground lodgings, as widows have done, and will do, again and again, till there is no such thing as widowdom in the world.

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[“H]e and his pretty mother had had such pleasant times during that twelve month of her widowdom”

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To make her job easier in the future, she [Louise Barstead of Widowed Persons Services] has a simple and clear message to the now-married population of the world: “Prepare now for widowdom because you’ll either face it some day or you won’t be here.” Half of every married couple, unless death is simultaneous, will eventually enter the state of widowdom.

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The story [of the film Rollover] begins with [Jane] Fonda’s socialite, ex-actress Lee Winters on the night of her widowdom.

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