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The sudden death of a partner while expecting a child is so universally understood as awful that I don't think anyone with any other weight to carry is going to get to same kind of sympathy - except perhaps people who lose a child.

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Carolyn Hax
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: December 5
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