One person responded to my comment pondering if women are considered “ugly” when they get older or if it’s just the current climate. My take based on observation is this—emotionally immature (read: narcissistic) people (most commonly men) prefer girls and younger women because they’re easier to control and have yet to learn to set boundaries.
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And that’s true. No matter what happens, when you left, you were my husband. I became a widow. Not a divorcee, not a single woman. A widow, and like you said, and as I’m sure you’d expect, not a conventional widow. Like you said in your letter…a Ms. Scarlett, the widow who wears black and dances with a blockade runner at the charity auction, the kind of woman who digs in the dirt to plant seeds so she can rise again, the consummate survivor.
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