Pennies from Heaven ... Really!: A Widow Shares Her True Story

When Nancy Northrop Sluzinski became a widow—losing her best friend and daily conversation partner of thirty years—she experienced immense sadness, anger, and loneliness. Following her husband’s death, she owned two farms—one in Connecticut and one in North Carolina—as well as a small winter home in Florida. She worked part-time as a cashier in a clothing store and collected social security. Overwhelmed by both her own emotions and the processes of death and grief, she was completely alone,...