widowed

A teen, Karin, is left by her ne’er-do-well widowed father in the care of her grandfather at a temple.

It was around that time that Im, who had lost his first wife to cancer, married Kim, who had also been widowed.

She credited her optimism to her mother, a “tough cookie” who found creative ways to make their finances work after she was widowed, including renting out the front of the family home.

My mother, widowed but loyal to the lifestyle market as if it would protect her from the alienation of child rearing, was onto something.

I’m widowed, age 62 and work full time as a nurse.