This was always a wonderful song. For me, it is a song that was completely appropriate for both my second father-in-law and my mother. Neither one of them ever got over the death of their partners.
I remember sitting in the hospital beside my father-in-law at the end of his life, and I suddenly started to cry and cry. I couldn't figure out why and then realized that the man in the next bed had his radio on and it was playing this song. My father-in-law lived in Chicago and went once a week to his wife's grave by bus. She had been sick for so long before she died, and it hadn't been pleasant. He never got rid of anything in their apartment that was part of her. In fact, one of the key signs that there was something really wrong was when he couldn't remember how to get the cemetery anymore.
For my mother, this just works even though my father died in an industrial accident - her devastation was so deep that it still amazes me that she survived the next thirty-six years. The next post will be about the other song that explains so much.
https://youtu.be/jBeOddejiGw
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