1.   Out in the hallway, the new widow started screaming at the priest and the doctor.

2.   After cremation, the new widow was told, it takes at least eight hours for the ashes to cool enough to be placed in a box.

3.   Faced with the decision that affects almost every new widow or widower -- what to do with the home -- the two friends made different choices.

4.   He said, for instance, that he has served as executor for the estates of several families and helped new widows arrange for Social Security benefits.

5.   How strange, though, that she emerges only after Antony has died, like a new widow discovering her independence.

6.   New widows like Minerva Mentor-Portillo are just beginning to grapple with how they will raise children alone.

7.   Now the new widow worries her embarrassed children by embracing life, hauling out her sax to join that outdoor guitarist for regular jam sessions.

8.   The bloodhounds literally jumped on the new widow.

9.   The new widow dragged rocks from a nearby creek to build the family home.

10.   He is one of the first babies born to new widows after terrorist attacks on the World Trade towers.