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mnhtnbb

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3. I'm sorry that a death in your wife's family has interfered with your vacation plans.

Reply to Night Watchman (Original post)

Wed Jun 22, 2016, 06:28 AM

Jun 2016

That is a bummer.

Wakes and funerals and memorial services are for the living. I'm at the age where they are coming more frequently. My husband is losing
friends on a regular basis. It will mean a lot to someone in your wife's family that she was there, probably her mother or father--whoever was
the sister or brother of her uncle--and it's never wrong to show kindness, love, and empathy when someone you love loses someone close
to them.

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I Ought to be in Niagara Falls, NY Right Now [View all] Night Watchman Jun 2016 OP

it's something I have never understood Skittles Jun 2016 #1

Maybe the living that will be there will be heartened to see your wife The Second Stone Jun 2016 #2

I'm sorry that a death in your wife's family has interfered with your vacation plans. mnhtnbb Jun 2016 #3

In later years as families grow apart, especially extended families Fla Dem Jun 2016 #4