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Anyone who has been widowed, divorced, whatever, finds often that they are being paired off, at dinner parties, nights at the theatre, at race meetings. It can hardly be called matchmaking these days, just the result of tidy minds and interfering dispositions.
It happened to James Tobin, even at funerals, which startled him. His wife Diana had died after a stroke on the ninth hole at Royal Sydney.
He'd always gone to quite a lot of funerals. They were more entertaining, he thought, than weddings or christenings. In death you saw the whole of life. At any halfway decent funeral you could observe old animosities surfacing, absences noted and deplored, old ...
Source: HighBeam Research, A man on his own.(Story)(Short story)