Sieglinde Othmer woke up and she was 80. Her husband was dead, buried across the lake from their Parkville home. Her children lived far away.
“How was I going to be joyful?” she asked herself.
Othmer, who has a Ph.D. in social sciences from the University of Hamburg in her native Germany, had worked alongside her husband of 55 years till the day he died. Every moment of her life had been tied to him and to their children…