Time doesn’t heal wound left by wife’s death

“I don’t do too much of nothing these days. Work around the house. Come out here to the park and watch the water. Just relaxing. I’m 74. Sometimes I think about going back to work. I get kind of bored.

“My wife died about two years ago. She was sick for a while, and just started going down. For the last year or so, she stayed in the hospital. So I figured it would be just a matter of time. At the end, it was real hard.

“I had met her at her friend’s house in Houston. We hit it off pretty fast. We were married about 23 years. We would go out and eat dinner. Go to the bowling alley. Go to the casino sometimes. Just regular things we would do together. I think about her passing away. It still bothers me.”

What do you miss most about her?
“The way she bossed me around. She would keep me in line.”

Would you like to meet someone else?
“I don’t mind meeting someone. But I don’t think I’d ever get married again. It’s not that I’m too old. I just don’t want to go back through all that again. I still miss my wife too much.”

— Eugene Gadson