At the altar, you make hopeful and sincere vows to love and cherish each other until death do you part. Your goals for your long and successful marriage include many milestones: opening your first joint savings account, buying your first home, having a child, getting a dog for your child, having another child… another dog… travel and adventure… planning for a comfortable retirement. Then, out of nowhere, you get an unexpected and devastating phone call. Your spouse of fifteen years has dropped dead of a heart attack. An emotionally jolting, dark cloud descends.
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“2019 Women's Council & Awards: Until Death Do Us Part,” by Stacy D. Phillips and Jacqueline Combs was published in the Los Angeles Business Journal on June 10, 2019.