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When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.

Amy Hempel
Mother, Father, Sorrow
Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.367, Simon and Schuster
When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.