Deachman: The Widowhood effect, or knowing when to leave the party

Yvonne Temple says she likes to leave a party when it’s at its peak, before most of the other guests have left, before the conversations have exhausted themselves, before the champagne goes flat and it all just kind of goes blah.
I met her a month ago, not at a party, but at the home of Margaret Lisinski, a 95-year-old woman for whom Yvonne provides daily care. I was interviewing the older woman, whose life forever changed — and not for the better — 75 years ago, when the train