It's been a year today since my sweet Patti passed.

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8. It takes quite some time from what I saw with my father.

He joined widow/widowers club, where he met his wonderful second wife. What I liked about then is the deep respect paid to each other's first spouses.

This may or may not be for you. I feel as if I had to give my father a push in that direction, telling him, unsolicited, that I thought it would be a measure of what love meant to him to seek to love again.

Everyone has to find their own way in grief. I'm just saying it because I worried I'd lose my father to his grief.

I have told my wife that when I die, I hope some other man will share in the depth of her love.

May you find peace.