A weird set of coincidences in my family…

Of the female blood relatives on my maternal side, I’m the only widow. There are plenty of widowers, and some uncles and male cousins (blood relatives) predeceased the women they married.
But of my female cousins who are gone, they left widowers.
In my own line,
My great grand-grandmother died at age 59, leaving her husband.
My grandmother died at age 79, leaving my grandfather.
My aunt (my mother’s only sister), passed at age 69, leaving her husband.
Then my own mother, age 89, leaving my father.
My sisters and I were looking at the records and thinking how odd it was.

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PiecingBabyFaceTogether · 31-35, M

Tbh you remind of my paternal aunt who has been a widow since before I was born. I never noticed the similarity till now. She looks a lot like you physically. My paternal grandma also died before paternal grandpa (they were cousins, I never saw them. Both died in the 80s).
My cousin, my aunt's daughter kinda lost her husband a few years ago, he suddenly got a strange disease and he lost his memory. He was barely 40 maybe younger when it happened. What's strange is that my aunt's husband was also pretty young when he died. My cousin grew up most of her life without a father and now her kids are also growing up without a father.

bijouxbroussard · F

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether That’s really very interesting. 🤔

PiecingBabyFaceTogether · 31-35, M

@bijouxbroussard Your old photos that you once posted reminded me of old photos of my dad's family. And then one day you mentioned you got North African roots. It's all very interesting in deed.
Unrelated but there's this Native American character in a show that also reminded me of both my aunt and you because in my mind you really look alike I have thought about it for some time but I never mentioned it.

bijouxbroussard · F

@PiecingBabyFaceTogether So I did discuss that ! I wasn’t sure if I had. 😄