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" No longer married, suddenly I was widowed. From Latin, the name means "emptied." Far worse; it felt like being torn in half, ripped apart from the single functioning organism that had been our family, our lives. Shattered, the word kept recurring; the whole pattern shattered, just as the mountain rocks had shattered his body. "

Elaine Pagels , Why Religion?: A Personal Story


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Elaine Pagels quote : No longer married, suddenly I was <i>widowed</i>. From Latin, the name means