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	<title>The Merry Widow</title>
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	<description>Navigating through loss and living, grief and laughter by the merry widow.</description>
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		<title>Sailing With the Suicidal Teen</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/swimming-with-the-suicidal-teen.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:20:25 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Second Chance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicidal Tendencies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widows Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[suicidal teen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Suicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widows and widowers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground. - Shakespeare The Tempest I picked up my daughter from the airport last night. She has been away for three weeks, the longest separation we have known, staying with relatives and then going to a camp with her cousins. She [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Permission to Remarry</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/permission-to-remarry.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/permission-to-remarry.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 05:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Second Chance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widows dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blended family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[remarry]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[widowhood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I guess you could call it his approval to go ahead. My fifteen year old teen had never verbalized this in any way in the past whatsoever. It came out of the blue, asking me if I was planning on getting married again. I said I don’t know, and that it was not a concern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Father to the Fatherless</title>
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		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/a-father-to-the-fatherless.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:29:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mourning period]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[father's day]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fatherless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Psalm 68]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widows]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themerrywidow.org/?p=109</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I made a bad mistake today. I took my kids to church on Father’s Day, against all good judgment. It was one of the first times they haven’t complained about going in a long time, but we’ll never do that again on Father&#8217;s Day until they reach the age of majority, or at least until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleep Disturbances for Fatherless Children</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/insomnia-syndrome-for-fatherless-children.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/insomnia-syndrome-for-fatherless-children.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[mourning period]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sleep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[counselling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fatherless children]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[insomnia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mourning]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themerrywidow.org/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It started out as insomnia initially. Long waking hours at night which warm milk, Sleepy Time Tea, and a trip to the doctor’s wouldn’t remedy. Weeks became months and have turned into over a year in which my middle son couldn’t sleep until well past his bedtime and mine. His feet paced the floor in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Кольцо выпуск</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bb%d1%8c%d1%86%d0%be-%d0%b2%d1%8b%d0%bf%d1%83%d1%81%d0%ba.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bb%d1%8c%d1%86%d0%be-%d0%b2%d1%8b%d0%bf%d1%83%d1%81%d0%ba.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 20:31:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[печаль]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[вдова]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[горе]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themerrywidow.org/?p=103</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Я еще не привыкла к этой голой, перстень мой. После трех лет, вы думаете, я бы не заметить, что без всяких украшений пальцем, но каждый день, в обязательном порядке, я считаю себя потирая пальцем по обнаженной районе, где кольцо было. Это заняло у меня около года, чтобы снять его, так что я думаю, что будет [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Alone Again, Naturally</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/alone-again-naturally.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/alone-again-naturally.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 02:56:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Widows Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[estate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widow]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There is something about being alone that makes or breaks you. We are ultimately on our own, even when we are married. It just doesn’t seem like it. I remember looking into the mirror after being single again, and realizing I was seeing me, the person, as I was and not me the wife I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Scottish Widows</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/scottish-widows.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/scottish-widows.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 00:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Widows Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[missing assets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish widows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish widows insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Scottish widows life insurance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themerrywidow.org/?p=90</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you are from Scotland, or have roamed around there as a traveler, you may not have heard of Scottish Widows Insurance. I’m not sure why Scotland was so diligent about protecting its widows after the Napoleonic War, but in 1815, the Scottish Widows Fund and Life Insurance Society was created in order to ensure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pillow Talk</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/pillow-talk.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/pillow-talk.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Apr 2010 05:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Widows Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sleep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themerrywidow.org/?p=86</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[That pillow on his side of the bed is a redundant objet d’art. It is lying in some passive state with a pretty sham and no head to go on it. I’m big on pillows and nice bedding even if I get it at some fabulous sale for mere dollars, which makes it even lovelier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top Ten Signs It Is Time to Move On</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/top-ten-signs-it-is-time-to-move-on.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/top-ten-signs-it-is-time-to-move-on.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 04:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mourning period]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mourning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[top ten]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themerrywidow.org/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You no longer buckle over with that hole in your stomach. Your journal includes positive anecdotes of the day. You’ve given away or stored his or her clothes (even if you keep one in the armoire to hold up to your face sometimes). You’ve made it through an hour more than three times a day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Those Good Ole Boys</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/those-good-ole-boys.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/those-good-ole-boys.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2010 05:54:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Widowed mother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widows Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[support group]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[university]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widow or widower]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themerrywidow.org/?p=74</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m not sure why there was such a rush for girls to be engaged by the time they were seniors in university. It was called the “senior panic” in the one I attended, and that was down in sunny South Carolina, with the moss laden trees, and melt-in-your-mouth biscuits. I was somehow immune to this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catch Me if You Can</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/catch-me-if-you-can.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/catch-me-if-you-can.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 05:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recently Widowed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widows dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[war widow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widow dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widows]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themerrywidow.org/?p=72</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that people think you have to be dating to be healing properly. If I don’t want to date someone, all the better for him at this moment of my life. He won’t have to drag me kicking and screaming into the dating scene and I won’t have to kill him in self-defence. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding My Own Shooting Star</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/finding-my-own-shooting-star.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/finding-my-own-shooting-star.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 14:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recently Widowed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widowed mother]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[God]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief Loss and Bereavement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[heaven]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themerrywidow.org/?p=67</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My oldest son, now 18, called me at work the other day for some reason I don’t recall. I think it was about his college applications. After that, he asked how everyone was doing and somehow we got onto the subject of his father. He wanted to know if I thought his dad went to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Ring Thing</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/the-ring-thing.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/the-ring-thing.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Mar 2010 01:28:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Widows dating]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mourning period]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[single widow]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themerrywidow.org/?p=64</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia I have yet to become accustomed to this bare ring finger of mine. After three years, you would think I would not notice that unadorned finger, but each and every day, without fail, I find myself rubbing my thumb against the bare area where the ring was. It took me about a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home Sweet Home Somewhere</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/home-sweet-home-somewhere.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/home-sweet-home-somewhere.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 03:11:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recently Widowed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Life insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widows and children]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is difficult to figure out when to follow your heart versus your head when it comes to moving away and into another place to set your cap and call it home. For the recently widowed the worst thing – normally, is to make rash decisions based on emotions. When you or I am tied [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All in a Day of a Widows Life</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/all-in-a-day-of-a-widows-life.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/all-in-a-day-of-a-widows-life.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 04:11:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Widows Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broadway theatre]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kids and Teens]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themerrywidow.org/?p=59</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia My 13 year old decided to test the waters with me, and is finding them rougher than she thought when she stepped into that rickety boat named defiance. I’m not sure what has brought this on, but it is unlike her. She is refusing to do an oratorical, even though she has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Widows Support Groups &#8211; Why Not Try One?</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/widows-support-groups-why-not-try-one.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/widows-support-groups-why-not-try-one.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 06:22:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Widows Support Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Grief Loss and Bereavement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grieving widows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new widows]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia There are a lot of widows and widowers out there who wish they lived in a more resource-friendly environment, you know, the ones that live hours from an international airport and about the same for a city. Those are the ones who have a difficult time accessing widows support groups, and yes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Years and Counting</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/three-years-and-counting.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/three-years-and-counting.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[parenting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[widows and widowers]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.themerrywidow.org/?p=48</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[February 10 is my three year mark of being a widow. He died a day before his oldest son’s birthday. He died four days before Valentines Day.  Nothing before and hopefully nothing after will top this one for them, because they have the rest of their lives to deal with this senseless death. They are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Time Off Work?</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/how-much-time-off-work.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/how-much-time-off-work.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 07:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recently Widowed]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mourning period]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr I realize many people cannot afford the time off work and their employment benefits program may not have this luxury. There are people all around the world who have to face grief while going back to work or risk losing their job. If I could, I would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Waltons and Us</title>
		<link>http://www.themerrywidow.org/the-waltons-and-us.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.themerrywidow.org/the-waltons-and-us.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:16:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hope]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Family]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John Walton]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve watched with curiosity as my second son, now 15, has immersed himself with the Waltons family. He is on season 5, having just finished that, and is hoping I&#8217;ll find season 6 somewhere. I&#8217;ll order it at Amazon if I need to. This has been going on for about a year now. Yes, John-Boy, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sometimes Goodbye Is a Second Chance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 06:10:06 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Second Chance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[letting go]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know if this song is talking about suicide or second chances in life. I&#8217;ve gone through the lyrics by Shine and they could be both I figure. If it was about suicide, shame on them, because we don&#8217;t need to influence the vulnerable with more self-destructing ideas to fuel their tendencies. Do I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Guilty On All Counts</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 05:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Guilt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Who would think that he&#8217;d be killed, by a little shock like that. Why &#8217;twas nothing but the bill for my Merry Widow Hat.&#8221; I don’t know about you, but I play it over in my mind on bad days. You know, the revolving door scenario debating if I had done this or that, stood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deadline for Grief</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:49:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grieving widow]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image via Wikipedia It is interesting how getting to that first year anniversary after my spouse died, seemed like reaching the top of Mount Kilimanjaro. It was like I wasn&#8217;t supposed to be doing some things – like dating someone, or laughing too much, smiling too much, going out to have fun. Do you know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In My Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Dreams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[After three years of being a widow, i.e. no husband on this earth, I will tell you that I enjoy having my bedroom as a haven to escape to at the end of a long day. No expectations left, no does he or doesn’t he, nothing but a book, some chocolate and sleep. I don’t [...]]]></description>
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