<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4053055e-ca62-406a-80da-fc5e3cd2fe20/7CF4C446-A942-4AB9-A61C-25DB56E8BCE4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.authspot.com/Short-Stories/The-Empty-Nest.940199" href="http://www.authspot.com/Short-Stories/The-Empty-Nest.940199" style="font-size: 11px;">www.authspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.authspot.com/Short-Stories/The-Empty-Nest.940199"><P class="articleAuthor">by <A href="http://www.triond.com/users/lalitha+v.raman" class="articleAuthorLink" target="_blank">lalitha v.raman</A>, Aug 6, 2009</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.authspot.com/Short-Stories/The-Empty-Nest.940199"><H2 class="articleSubtitle">It is just that people don’t understand that there is no relationship between the age, the diseases and the life-long love between the two people! She could live with her husband with his old age and his illness, but not without his physical presence and companionship!</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.authspot.com/Short-Stories/The-Empty-Nest.940199"><P>Theirs was an arranged marriage. Who could have dared to even think of the <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink1"><FONT color="#9c1d4a"><SPAN class="kLink">love</SPAN></FONT></A> <A href="#" class="kLink" target="undefined" id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="#9c1d4a"><SPAN class="kLink">marriage</SPAN></FONT></A> in those days, decades & decades ago! She was sixteen years or was she twelve years old at that time? 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