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Growing through grief, Teresa Rodríguez and her two young sons found a new way of defining family.

by: Ana Veciana-Suárez, from: AARP VIVA, Summer 2008

The reality of her husband's death—the awful permanence of his absence—didn't hit Teresa Rodríguez until six weeks later. At the office of a grief specialist, she had to check off one of three boxes: single, married, widowed. "I was so accustomed to checking off 'married,' and now suddenly I was 'widowed,' " recalls Rodríguez, her voice breaking. "I came face to face with my new reality. It was right there in black and white." … Back to Article

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