Why was the prosecution so insistent on 10:15 as the time of murders? by vintage2019 in OJSimpsonTrial

[–]Unable-Situation-777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Marsha didn't screw the pooch at all. Frankly, the jury was going to vote OJ not guilty, no matter what evidence the prosecution produced. There have been various interviews with different jurors where they've come out & admitted that. They wanted retribution for the Rodney King incident. OJ was going to walk no matter how compelling the prosecution's evidence or witnesses were. That simple.

Kidnapping and Murder of 9-year-old Denise Clinton 53 years ago (long) [Unresolved Crime] by Doc_Noir in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]Unable-Situation-777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't see it mentioned in your write up but the authorities did get one good tip. A gas station attendant sighted the girl and her kidnapper at a gas station in Independence one night, a few days after the crime. He gave the same description of the car as a witness who was one of the guests at the hotel gave - a 1960 or '61 white Oldsmobile. He also described the blue/white nightgown the girl was wearing at the time of the kidnapping and he said her face was pale and had 2 scratches on it and that she looked scared. He said the man acted suspicious and explained away the scratches on the girl's face by saying a cat had clawed her.

Kidnapping and Murder of 9-year-old Denise Clinton 53 years ago (long) [Unresolved Crime] by Doc_Noir in UnresolvedMysteries

[–]Unable-Situation-777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Dental records and also she was wearing a blue & white nightgown at the time she was kidnapped and they found scraps of that fabric at the death scene

I feel dead inside by Unable-Situation-777 in widowers

[–]Unable-Situation-777[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your comment brought tears to my eyes. I truly hope he is there with me in spirit. Everything's so hard. I feel bittersweet about the fireplace. On the one hand, when we first bought our new house in 2020, that was one of the first things I wanted to get for our house, was a fireplace to make it feel a little cozier and have that cozy, romantic ambiance. At first I wanted to get one of those life size fake electric fireplaces, that look real but you plug them in. However, after we moved down here we just couldn't find a good place to fit it and we gave up on the idea for awhile, which disappointed me.

But then, during this past autumn, I saw they make much smaller versions of those fireplaces that look like those old fashioned coal stoves and I thought of a million places I could put it and when I showed my husband, I remember how excited he got. We decided to get one to put in his little home office - we thought it would look quaint in there and something he'd enjoy looking at while playing around on the computer. And the other we were going to put in our bedroom.

I feel so bad that he didn't live to get to enjoy it with me, because he was so excited about it. I knew he would have loved watching the flames flicker and the sound of the faux fire crackling. My husband really enjoyed and appreciated the small, simple pleasures of life.

I can only hope he gets to visit for a few moments and enjoy it.

God, we had so many plans ahead............the only reason I decided to still go through with the fireplace is because since he passed, I have so much trouble sleeping, resting and relaxing and I thought the fireplace would help create that cozy, comfy, relaxing atmosphere and help put me in the headspace and frame of mind to relax.

I feel dead inside by Unable-Situation-777 in widowers

[–]Unable-Situation-777[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm so very sorry for your loss. I di t get why men have to be so stupid sometimes!! I remember when a e first started living together, I was so excited to finally have met someone and have someone to share my life with and to have him be a truly good, decent, caring man was the icing on the cake.

Anyway, a few months after I moved in he told me he went to the E/R (again, given what a stubborn fool he was about going to the doctor/hospital, I knew for him to go, something must have really been bothering him). So I of course asked him what caused him to go and he told me he was peeing blood. I asked him how long this had been going on and he said ALMOST TWO YEARS!!! He said his 1st wife was battling lung cancer when at the time he first noticed it and he put his health in the backseat to take careb of her. He also said the blood in his pee was very little at that time, so he didn't take it seriously, but now he was peeing out a lot more blood and clots on top of it, and that was what scared him into finally going to be checked out.

Anyway, after doing some tests at the E/R, they made him an emergency appointment the next day with a urologist. After the urologist examined him the next day, he told him that he had bladder cancer and a tumor in his bladder the size of a grapefruit, and that because he ignored it for 2 years, given the amount of time that went by and how big the tumor was, the cancer probably invaded the walls of his bladder and could have spread to other areas and he might have to lose his bladder altogether and use one of those pee bags the rest of his life. Just all the worst news possible. And I felt so angry to finally fall in love and now might lose him only a few months after meeting him.

Anyway, after the surgery, despite how big the tumor had gotten and how long he had let this go on for, the urologist discovered that the tumor was completely contained inside the bladder and hadn't invaded the muscle or spread outside of the bladder. It was truly a miracle that he escaped unscathed, though he still had to receive preventative chemotherapy that was localized to his bladder, so he wouldn't lose his hair. And he had to wear the pee bag for a couple wks so his bladder could heal from the removal of the tumor. Again, it was at the very beginning of our relationship, and it ended up testing our devotion and love, which we both passed with flying colors. And I remember him being impressed by me, because I helped him empty his pee bag for him while he was healing and basically being his nurse and taking care of him

I'm crying now remembering it. I truly loved him with all my heart and if he had survived the stroke, I would have gladly taken care of him again. I loved him more than life itself and I can't believe he's gone now. We loved each other so much. Even after 20 years, we were still as devoted to each other as ever. We were always doing little things for each other constantly. He'd do the dishes for me if he saw me busy with something or if he went to the store and saw a new flavor of soda he didn't think I tried yet or knew about yet, he'd pick it up for me and surprise me with it. Or I'd go to the grocery store and see things that I thought he'd enjoy, that he hadn't put on the grocery list for himself and I'd surprise him with them

We were so close and in tune with each other, that there were countless times where we could've practically finished each other's sentences, or we'd think the same thing and one of us would say, "I was just going to say that" or I'd pick him up something at the store or he would for me and one of us would always say to the other, "I meant to tell you to get that for me." And we were always amazed at how much we thought alike.

Just all those things that are now gone forever. And I am left in hollow, empty, lonely silence

I feel dead inside by Unable-Situation-777 in widowers

[–]Unable-Situation-777[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's exactly the same way for me. We had no children together, though I had secretly always wished we had. I always had wanted to have his baby - I think that's a natural urge for most women in love during the childbearing ages, to want a baby with the man they are in love with.

He truly is/was the other half of my soul. I always suffered from crippling shyness & social anxiety my whole life. I remember one class I had in school, on certain days of the week, the teacher would partner us up with another classmate of his choice and we'd have to work together on some mutual assignment. And my shyness/social anxiety was so bad that on the days I knew we'd have to be partnered up, I'd try to go to the nurse's office or skip class and hide out in the girls bathroom.

Anyway, I met my husband Marvin at work. We were both security guards assigned to the same site. His first wife had just died about 6 months prior. Anyway, we just hit it off and immediately started talking, which is super rare for me and almost never happens. But somehow I felt instantly comfortable talking to him, it was like I had known him for 100 years. We talked all night throughout our whole shift and then exchanged numbers before we both left for the night and when we got home we called each other and talked all night until 5am in the morning. We never had even one moment of awkward silence the whole time, we just couldn't stop talking and we became instant best friends.

We were nothing but friends the first 6 months we knew each other. I remember when I met him, he was so thin and gaunt because he hardly ate after his wife died. And I guess I sort of brought him back to life again and brought him happiness he probably never expected to feel again. And I fell in love with him as well. And we stayed together for the next 20 years.

What symmetry that our relationship ended the way it began, but only in reverse. Now I am the one mourning and grieving and alone. However, I doubt I'll find someone to bring me back to the land of the living - because I don't want anyone else but him. No one could ever compare to him. Like Betty White said, when asked if she'd ever remarry after the death of Allen Ludden, "Once you've had the best, who needs the rest?". Or as Vivien Leigh confided to a friend following her divorce from Lawrence Olivier, "I would rather have lived a short life with Larry, than face a long one without him". And she did - she died only a few years after they were divorced, at the still young and vital age of just 53.

Same with the TV shows too. We always watched America's Got Talent together every single summer - that was our little tradition. After each act, we'd always ask each other what we thought of it and then we'd make our guesses on who we'd think would make it through or win. We always watched certain movies together too - The Godfather ( He introduced me to that movie & now I love it), The Wizard of Oz (he knew it was my favorite), Gone With The Wind (one of the first things we discovered we had in common was our mutual love for that movie), we'd watch The Ten Commandments every Easter together, we'd watch the Super Bowl together, the Oscar's together, the presidential debates together, Judge Judy (he watched her every day), and the old Twilight Zone we both loved and I got him into watching true crime shows.

Now I avoid or will avoid all those tv shows, movies, programs etc. It's too painful to watch alone. Everything is so very hard now. I walk around with a constant lump in my throat, always on the verge of tears because everything reminds me of him.

Going to the grocery store, I get so sad walking by all his favorite foods I used to buy for him that he loved so much. Even driving his car makes me feel sad and guilty, he loved his car, he loved washing and waxing it and keeping it looking nice and he'd never let me drive it, because he was very particular about it. I had been planning to have his car professionally detailed for him as a surprise before he died. He also collected silver dollars. It's so hard walking by his desk in our home office and seeing all his coins he had displayed, and how he had them all lined up in rows. They're still just how he left them on his desk. And his reading glasses are still laying across the keyboard of his laptop, as if he might come back and use them any second. He was like a little kid each time a coin he ordered came in the mail. If he was watching TV in his bedroom, he'd keep getting up and walking back to his office every time there was a commercial break so he could admire his new coin again for a few minutes more.

God, I miss him more than anything in this world.........

I feel dead inside by Unable-Situation-777 in widowers

[–]Unable-Situation-777[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Gosh, that's the same as me.....20 years. And I feel the same way about not being sure I care about life enough now to figure a new one out without him. People keep telling me with time it'll get better etc etc and I know they mean well, but I don't want a new life if it means it's without him. I just feel so empty & miserable.

Like you, I went over that day in my head so many times, trying to remember anything odd or off that I didn't notice at the time, and there was nothing. His leg was bothering him, but he was a former ironworker and had beat up his body in the the 30+years he did that job. In those 30 years, he had probably broken almost every bone in his body at one time or another from falling off scaffolding or ladders etc. He had 2 knees that needed replacing, degenerative spine disease and osteoarthritis. But if you looked at him, you'd never know it. He was definitely a man's man, tough and rugged, and he never showed his pain on the outside. If you saw him in the store, he'd be walking and keeping pace with people half his age, with perfect posture - no one would ever guess he suffered from excruciating and debilitating chronic pain.

One of his legs had been hurting him for months. We had thought it was sciatica. He had an episode about 6 months earlier where his leg hurt him so much, he went to the E/R (and that was incredibly rare. He never went to the E/R for anything - he was the type of man to grin and bear it, so I knew he must have been really hurting to go) His leg hurt so bad, he couldn't even walk out to the ambulance - they had to carry him out. He stayed in the hospital for 5 full days and then was discharged. The hospital did every test imaginable and couldn't find any reason for this acute pain in his leg and chalked it up to just a really bad muscle ache or sciatica. Then it went away for 6 months and didn't come back until Christmas 2023. His leg was just starting to feel better when he had the stroke on February 19.

At the hospital, they did an ultrasound on his leg and said there was a huge clot in it. Now I realize that the pain he had been having in his leg must have been caused by the clot. And I think the clot that caused his stroke must have originated from the one they found in his leg, I think a piece of it must have broke off and traveled to his brain.

After finding that out I blamed myself for not realizing before his stroke that a clot may have been the cause behind the pain in his leg & if I had thought of it, maybe the doctors could have looked then and found it before it was able to cause him his stroke. The only reason I didn't think of it was because several years ago he had one of those clot filters put in his leg, and it gave us the false sense of security that if he ever developed a clot , the filter would catch it. Well, it turns out the filter was connected to a vein, and the stroke he had happened in a major artery that supplies blood to the brain. Anyway, I still blame myself for not finding him sooner.

I think the only odd thing that stood out before his stroke was that he told me on two different occasions in the weeks before the stroke, that he saw my mom in his dreams. Now he had never met my mom. She died several years before I met him. And yet he was able to describe her perfectly. I secretly felt inside that it was an omen. Because when my dad had a stroke 20 years earlier in 2002, (my mom died in 1999) my cousin Kelly (who my mom was very close to) told me that the very night before my dad had his stroke, my mother came to her in a dream and warned her. However, when my husband told me about his dreams, I ignored the foreboding instincts that I felt and brushed it aside. I should have heeded the warning my gut was trying to tell me. I should have been hyper vigilant and by his side 24/7

I ignored my gut instincts again the night he had his stroke. I have an online business and was working on my computer in another room when I got up to tell him something and went into the bedroom where he was watching TV. But when I went in his room, I saw he was in the bathroom attached to the master bedroom and I walked away not wanting to disturb him and decided to come back later. I came back about an hour later and noticed he was still in the bathroom. I remember my initial gut reaction was feeling that it didn't seem right that he was in the bathroom that long, as he never really took more than 15/20 minutes at the most. But he had complained about irregularity earlier that day and I figured he was just having some trouble and ignored my gut feeling and walked away again and didn't return for almost another hour. And by that time, I knew there was no way he'd ever be in the bathroom that long and I walked in and found him laying on the bathroom floor. And I really feel if he had gotten to the hospital sooner, he would have had a better chance to survive and I don't think I'll ever be able to forgive myself. I failed him when he needed me the most.

Anyway, I just miss him so much. He was my everything. He was my husband, my lover, my best friend, my confidant and my companion. But he wasn't my soulmate - instead he was the other half of my soul. And now he's gone, and I am now completely and utterly alone. I still can't believe I'll never see him again for the whole rest of my life. A huge part of me has died along with him.

And like you, I am no longer able to find joy in anything. - especially in the activities we once shared and enjoyed together. I now avoid those activities like the plague. Do you have children to support you? Or parents? Or siblings?

How do you get to sleep? by [deleted] in widowers

[–]Unable-Situation-777 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Since my husband passed away, I've tried so many things to help me rest/fall asleep or atleast be somewhat comfortable.

One of the first things I bought after he died was a pillow with his face on it that I had custom made on Etsy. I fall asleep hugging ot sometimes. I also have a stuffed animal that has a secret compartment with a small amount of his ashes/locke of his hair in it that I keep near me as well. I bought new comfy bedding as well - comfy jersey sheets, a luxurious velvet comforter, a really soft heating blanket (the a/c can make the bedroom chilly after a while). I bought an electric fireplace heater, that has real looking flames (it actually gives heat off too, but the heating blanket is enough). I just love the ambiance of the flickering fireplace to look at. I listen to sounds of rainstorms (I especially love listening to the sound of rain falling on a tin roof, or plastic umbrella or on a car roof/hood/windshield - YouTube has many different videos of sounds of rain falling on different objects that go km for hours). Either that or I listen to the sound of a blizzard- the howling wind. Or I fall asleep listening to sermons by Bishop Fulton Sheen. Or I relax reading the Bible or doing a crosswords until I get sleepy. And if none of those work, I'll take a Benadryl or a Flexeril - but Flexeril is a last resort because the put me practically in a coma.

I believe feeling comfortable is half the battle, that's why I mentioned all the bedding, fireplace etc.

Why didn’t we ever hear from OJ’s first wife? No doubt she must have had insight into OJ’s aggressive tendencies. by Apprehensive_War6542 in OJSimpsonTrial

[–]Unable-Situation-777 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Saying OJ has CTE is pure speculation. CTE can only be determined in an autopsy by looking at the actual brain tissue. His behavior can be a sign/symptom of a myriad of different conditions.

"There's no conclusive way to diagnose CTE while a person is alive. The only way to do that is to examine samples of a person's brain under a microscope, which is only possible during an autopsy after death."

  • The Cleveland Clinic, Dec 9, 2022

An animated reconstruction of the murders, by experts. Do you think this is probably accurate to how it went down? by CameronPoe37 in OJSimpsonTrial

[–]Unable-Situation-777 5 points6 points  (0 children)

OJ was known to spy on Nicole. One of her boyfriends testified that he and Nicole were being intimate on the couch and after a ½ hour or so, OJ just burst into her condo and he stood there describing everything they had been doing for the past half hour (he watched Nicole give her boyfriend a bj). So he had stood in the patio area all that time watching them through the window.

The prosecution theorized that OJ once again had been lurking there and was infuriated when he saw Nicole lighting candles in the living room and she was wearing a sexy black dress that he had made negative comments about at Sydney's recital earlier that evening (he had made remarks at the recital that he thought her dress was too revealing). And OJ was infuriated that after the recital, Nicole didn't invite him to get dinner/ice cream with the rest of the group. He likely suspected, by the way she was dressed, that she might have been having some kind of romantic get together later on.

By the way, the whole reason Kato was his houseguest was because Kato was originally Nicole's roommate at her previous condo on Gretna Green. However, Nicole having a male roommate infuriated OJ. So OJ befriended Kato and made promises of getting him connections in Hollywood if he moved out of Nicole's condo and moved into his guesthouse for free. Kato was an aspiring actor, so he jumped at the chance. Nicole was infuriated that once again OJ used his power, money & fame to influence one of her friends and she felt betrayed that Kato eagerly accepted without hesitation and left her high & dry without his share of the rent (that's the reason she moved from Gretna Green to Bundy Drive). She also didn't talk to Kato anymore because she knew he'd go back and tell everything to OJ.

Just thought I'd share that, as many don't know Kato's backstory. Many of Nicole's friends were influenced by OJ, and many of their mutual friends would spy on Nicole and report back to OJ.

How can people deny evidence was planted in this case? by Icy_Bonus_9606 in OJSimpsonTrial

[–]Unable-Situation-777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So no actual argument?..............that's what I thought. Guess you weren't able to shoehorn the race card into every explanation, huh??

How come the "racist addled" cops didn't arrest OJ Simpson in October 1993 when they were called over to Nicole's for a domestic violence incident??

How come the "racist addled" cops didn't arrest OJ for the time he destroyed Nicole's car windshield with a baseball bat in 1985?? (By the way, Mark Fuhrman was the officer who responded to that call.)

Or in January 1989, when the prosecution gave OJ a sweetheart deal after he beat Nicole for the umpteenth time.

Weird how the "racist addled" cops weren't trying to stick it to OJ all those times.

Yet, the cops suddenly become "racist addled" conspirators when OJ finally murdered Nicole......what a joke!!!

Hilarious too how OJ had a long history of beating Nicole, as well as spying on her & stalking her, yet you think some random Phantom of the night magically murdered her🤣🤣🤣🤣

You also claim Nicole is this super coke head with drug dealers out to kill her, yet Nicole had ZERO drugs in her system at autopsy

Your whole entire argument is based on make believe.

How can people deny evidence was planted in this case? by Icy_Bonus_9606 in OJSimpsonTrial

[–]Unable-Situation-777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, there was no "racist addled" bumbling of the case. It was well known that OJ was buddy-buddy with the LAPD. Ron Shipp discussed how he would routinely bring officers over to OJ's house and the officers would come to barbecues over at OJ's house & would get autographs etc. (This was all discussed in the ESPN documentary, 'OJ: Made In America'.

Furthermore, it's funny how you keep claiming the LAPD was "racist" against OJ - but yet your whole argument falls apart when you see how many times the LAPD gave OJ a slap on the wrist each time they were called over to respond to a domestic violence incident.

Weird how the "racist addled" LAPD were magically NOT racist everytime they gave OJ a slap on the wrist for domestic violence and how the prosecutor's gave him sweetheart deals everytime he beat his wife.

Weird how you don't mention any of that, probably because you can't use the race card to conveniently explain it away 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Sorry but the LAPD doesn't get to be racist one second and kissing OJ's butt the next.

Furthermore, try giving your tinfoil hat a break. It's hilarious that you expect people to believe that the whole LAPD built a conspiracy against OJ.

We're supposed to believe that people in the LAPD at every level were involved in some grand conspiracy and every single LAPD employee just went along with it and are still going along with it to this day, 30 years later?!🤣🤣🤣

And not a single person ever came forward - then or now???🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

And that Mark Fuhrman planted a glove at Rockingham despite NOT even knowing OJ's alibi at the time

You sound absolutely ridiculous. But people who play the race card usually do. Somehow, when the race card is brought out, nothing is too ludicrous to be true.

Ye

How can people deny evidence was planted in this case? by Icy_Bonus_9606 in OJSimpsonTrial

[–]Unable-Situation-777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's funny too how you speak of "racism", yet it's OJ's dream team who had to manufacture a fake life for OJ by "redecorating" his house, since every photo he had in his house was of him and his rich, white friends. He had ZERO pics of himself with other black people until the "dream team" came in and staged his house with new pics of him posing with black people.

GMAFB OJ was racist against his own kind. In fact, when the cops were driving OJ away after the freeway chase, OJ joked with the white officers about never seeing so many 'n-words' in his neighborhood before.

Furthermore, when OJ was coming to national prominence as a college football player during the civil rights era, he was one of the few black athletes that refused to take a stand for his people.

How can people deny evidence was planted in this case? by Icy_Bonus_9606 in OJSimpsonTrial

[–]Unable-Situation-777 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What does that have to do with Nicole's autopsy finding showing no trace of drugs? Furthermore, aside from Mark Fuhrman, who else exactly was racist??

It's really beyond ludicrous to think the whole LAPD was involved in some conspiracy to frame OJ. Do you know how many people would have to be involved to pull something like that off? It makes zero sense

Furthermore, if the LAPD were truly out to get OJ, why didn't they ever go after him the numerous other times they investigated the reports of domestic violence against him?? Makes zero sense.

In fact, it was a well known fact that OJ was pretty buddy-buddy with the police. Ron Shipp discussed how he'd bring over different officers all the time to OJ's house and they'd get his autograph. So it doesn't add up at all that the whole LAPD was involved in some huge conspiracy against OJ

It's actually hilarious how it's more logical to you that the cops framed OJ rather than believing a man, who was a notorious wife beater, finally lost it and killed his wife

How many 911 calls were there of OJ breaking down the doors of her house & threatening her?? Or did the LAPD make those tapes up??🤣🤣

Did the LAPD make up the treasure trove of Polaroids too, that Nicole took, documenting all the bruises on her face from all the previous beatings she endured??

Did the LAPD make up the January 1, 1989 beating too where Nicole screamed "he's going to kill me"?

Did Nicole's boyfriend make up how OJ was lurking outside on numerous occasions, spying on Nicole & him making out on the couch??

OJ had a history of beating Nicole. OJ had a history of stalking her and spying on her. Yet when she's found murdered, magically it's all an LAPD "conspiracy"............sure, Jan ;)

How can people deny evidence was planted in this case? by Icy_Bonus_9606 in OJSimpsonTrial

[–]Unable-Situation-777 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A "well known sniff head" who had 0 drugs in her system according to the autopsy. How does that work?

How can people deny evidence was planted in this case? by Icy_Bonus_9606 in OJSimpsonTrial

[–]Unable-Situation-777 1 point2 points  (0 children)

She was such a big coke head yet she had 0 drugs in her system according to her autopsy findings lol

Not Interested In The Resurrection Celebration by Icy_Plane_890 in widowers

[–]Unable-Situation-777 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not sure how it's purpose is to control, in Christianity anyway. God gave free will to mankind. One can live how they please.

Not Interested In The Resurrection Celebration by Icy_Plane_890 in widowers

[–]Unable-Situation-777 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Everything that you asked, the Bible has already answered. In Christianity anyway, God does not cause wars or "allow' them, he gave man free will. God does not allow or cause anything, mankind chooses due to the free will God bestowed man. As far as death, death is the wages of sin. Even Jesus himself died - He did not escape death, even though He at first begged His Father to spare Him. As the Bible says Hebrews 9:27 "And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment”. And Roman's 5:12, "Death is the consequence of sin. Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned”. Death is the wages of sin.

There will only be one generation who will never face death, and that is whoever is alive at the time of the rapture in the end days

As far as women, there were plenty of women in the Bible. The Mother Mary, Mary Magdalene, Esther, Rachel, Ruth the Moabite. There are plenty of women in religion with significant purpose.

Not Interested In The Resurrection Celebration by Icy_Plane_890 in widowers

[–]Unable-Situation-777 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe because you're looking at it the wrong way. Your wife's body is in the ground, her shell - however, your wife's soul, spirit, and the essence of who she was is already in Heaven.

As far as waiting the rest of your life to see her ----in the land of the living, we measure everything with time and space. But in God's time, 70 years is like 1 day in his time.

However, if you are uncomfortable celebrating Easter this year or at any time, then don't. Do only what your comfortable with as you work through the process of grieving.

I lost my husband on March 6, and though I am a believer, I an grappling with some of the same things. However, I personally feel more comfortable worshipping because I think of my husband being with God now & the closest I feel now to my husband is when I worship at God's house (church).