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b"Madilyn talks about Reinventing Life after Grief. You can listen to the show at http://rockyourretirement.libsyn.com/reinventing-your-life-after-the-death-of-your-spouse\\n \\nI met Madilyn at the San Marcos Senior Center.\\xa0\\xa0 She stopped by my table and we started to talk.\\xa0\\xa0 This 78-year-old woman was such an inspiration I had to interview her!\\xa0 She is the epitome of reinventing life after grief.\\nHer husband died after they were married for almost 60 years.\\n\\nStricken with grief, she didn't know what to do.\\xa0 He was her dance partner, her business partner, and her friend.\\xa0 They had\\nlived a wonderful life and had done almost everything on the 101 things on your bucket list.\\nOnce he died, Madilyn didn't know what to do.\\xa0 She had grown up with him; she had cared for him, and now he was gone.\\xa0\\xa0 As a woman of faith, she knew he was in a better place, but how was she to go on without him?\\xa0 How was going to be able to\\xa0begin reinventing life after grief?\\xa0 They had been friends and lovers for such a very long time.\\nHer story literally made me cry.\\xa0 I had to interview her so that my listeners could get over their own grief when they had lost a spouse.\\nAfter about a year of grieving, Madelyn decided that it was time to start living again.\\xa0 She sold her husband\\u2019s tools and created a dance studio (for her own use) in the garage.\\xa0 She started volunteering again at the San Marcos Senior Center, and she started taking care of her body and now runs 3 miles every day.\\nMadilyn is also an organic gardener and loves her pet turtle, Nessie, who has had 50 babies in the time that she has had her.\\xa0 She's in a constant battle with the raccoons in the neighborhood, but thankfully, Nessie is too big for the raccoons to eat.\\nAt age 78 Madilyn has also started using the computer and is now on Facebook so that\\xa0she can keep in contact with her friends and family.\\nListen to Madilyn tell her story of the two different worlds that she has lived in.\\xa0 Her story will inspire you.\\nhttp://traffic.libsyn.com/rockyourretirement/Madilyn_Troike_160216_Final_with_intro.mp3\\nThis article on Retirement Lifestyle first appeared on http://RockYourRetirement.com. \\xa92016-2017Maddy Troike shows us how she is reinventing life after grief"