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Dr. Marco Coppola was just 33 years old when he lost his wife, Dr. Margaret J. Karnes, to breast cancer on May 4, 1997. The couple had been married almost 7 years.
"I used to think that it would be easier for me to have gone through a divorce, because I would think 'she's alive, and she's well, and she's happy,'" said Dr. Coppola, chair of the department of emergency medicine at Las Colinas Medical Center in Irving, Tex. "But no. Death is the ultimate closure. I don't know why it had to happen, but it did."
The couple met while attending the College of Osteopathic Medicine at Des Moines University in Iowa, and married in 1990; 5 years later, Margaret ...