DEAR ABBY: In years past, I have lost three friends. Because we lived many miles apart, I learned the sad news when their widows informed me by letter of their deaths.
In each case, the widow had blackened out the name of her spouse on the return address labels. My mother-in-law did the same thing when her husband died.
What prompts these women to eliminate evidence of their loved one so quickly? -- GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN
DEAR GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN: Pragmatism.