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The spirit of saturday night widows bursts the stereotype of glum, mournful widowhood with the energy of a pentup thirst for life. After being kicked out of her widow support group for being too young, becky creates her own support group with an unusual twist. What follows is my sketchy tab of book of saturday. A backstage history of saturday night live by doug hill and jeff weingad. Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning in her forties a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role becky aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world in this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief and transcend loss and, following her own remarriage, forms a group with five other young widows to test these unconventional ideas.
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