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05/09/00
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Ambiguous losses leave
survivors in limbo
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This is a
love story - but one with the kind of anguished twist that millions
of Americans must grapple with. "Betsy, Betsy, Betsy, I love
you," Frederick "Pete" Peterson, now 84 and living in
an assisted-living facility in Peabody, used to say, before
Alzheimer's disease slowly stole his brain.
04/22/96 -
Loneliness can be
the death of us
- A little over 100 years ago,
a small band of Italians left Roseto Val Fortore, a village in the
foothills of the Apennines, in hopes of a better life amid the slate
quarries of eastern Pennsylvania. Naming their new village Roseto,
the group soon recreated the strong community ties they had nurtured
in Italy. They lived in three-generation households, centered their
lives on family and built their houses so close together that all it
took to have in a neighborly chat was a walk to the front porch
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Loneliness/loss
