Setting a table for presence and absence

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Movie still from the 1965 film The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. All the Von Trapp children gathered to open presents. Photo: Getty Images The widower who has a second chance at love is a romantic cultural trope.

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