The Last Weekend
A Story of Love, Loss, and Hope
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Death brings with it two different walls. If you say you are a widow/widower, be prepared for the first wall to come down and people to shy away from you. You start to feel like you have an infectious disease. No one wants to experience any part of your sadness. I do understand this part of humanity. People will do their best to change the subject as quickly as possible. Unfortunately, this is a normal reaction for many people. This action hurts the first few times it happens. But by month two, it will be normal, and you’ll become used to this reaction. I wished for a different word to use for my situation. Widow is a harsh word for people. It’s like saying “anthrax” to scare someone.
The second wall is one that you may create for yourself. Your wall of solitude—Superman’s Fortress of Solitude. You may not want to deal with people, even close friends. Even though your friends want to help you, you may not even know how to tell them you need help. You don’t know what you need or want. Widow fog. You may just simply be existing each day in order to go to sleep, blessed sleep.
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About the Book
Each year, millions of widows and widowers face a new “normal” life because of the devastating loss of their spouse. In this modern, digital age, losing a beloved spouse comes with more than it used to. For author C. B. Schneider, the loss of her soul mate one April afternoon also meant that all of the account passwords died with him, his digital life locked away.
Shutting down a digital life is not an easy task for those left behind. The Last Weekend documents one woman’s battle with grief and all the new tasks to be done, showing you how to make it through the first thirteen months of your new “normal” life.
About the Author
C. B. Schneider was born in the sixties and has lived in St. Paul, Minnesota, all her life. She has a grown daughter, Kristen, and a shih tzu named Frodo, who keep her company after the loss of her beloved husband of thirty years. Schneider holds a master’s degree in organizational leadership and a bachelor of science in business administration from the University of Northwestern–St. Paul, and is an eccentric visionary with a love of history; The Last Weekend is her first book, with more to come.