AFTER LOSING HIS WIFE TO CANCER, A WIDOWER DECIDED TO EAT ALONE AT A RESTAURANT FOR THE FIRST TIME — WHAT HE DID BEFORE HE LEFT MADE PEOPLE CRY

Lee Ballantyne lost his wife, Carol, just before New Year’s Eve. They had been married 43 years.

A week after her death, commencing with days and nights filled with many firsts, Ballantyne did something strangely novel: He ate alone at a restaurant.

At Cicco’s Ristorante north of Toronto, the widower saw something that brought memories of Carol flooding into his mind — a couple sitting next him who reminded Ballantyne of his marriage of nearly half a century.
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