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Jovina Silva Even though Jovina Silva has gone through cancer, a mastectomy, a hysterectomy and several other serious health scares over the last decade, she never felt the urgency to put together an advance health directive advising her son what to do in case she didn’t pull through. But last week, as she watched the coronavirus pandemic rapidly unfold from her home in California, where over 1,000cases of COVID-19 have been counted, she wrote down her last wishes. The possibility of prolonged sickness or even death from COVID-19 triggered an urgency in Silva, 87, a retired educator from Riverside RI. “I'm vulnerable and I’m in that target age, and I knew I had to get this end-of-life stuff done,” she said. “This has put me face-to-face with my responsibility and what I need to do to make things easier for my son should anything bad happen. Courtesy of  Jovina Silva Image: Jovina Silva with her son João (John)  and daughter-in-law JoAn. (Theres another son/brother Antonio (Anthony)

Listen to this story --:-- An Apology to My Ex Husband & Wife, in 13 Parts A cautionary tale for cheaters I had an affair with your husband, to whom I am now married, and I am so, so sorry. If there is one decision in my life I could undo, it would be this. Because of what it did to you, because of what it’s done to me, and because it was just plain wrong. I won’t take full responsibility for the breakdown of your marriage. The myth of the homewrecker is just that — a myth. No one can wreck someone’s home against his will. You two wrecked your home on your own, before I ever came on the scene. And anyway, you had an affair too, so I know you understand. However, I still owe you several apologies beyond the apology for my original sin. I am sorry I believed the things he said about you. He told me that you were dumb. He said it without malice or animosity — just presented it as a fact; you weren’t that smart and therefore he was bored with you. Now I’m the stupid one; h

--:-- --:-- An Apology to My  Ex-Wife, & Husband  in 13 Parts A cautionary tale for cheaters I had an affair with your wife, to whom I am now married, and I am so, so sorry. If there is one decision in my life I could undo, it would be this. Because of what it did to you, because of what it’s done to me, and because it was just plain wrong. I won’t take full responsibility for the breakdown of your marriage. The myth of the homewrecker is just that — a myth. No one can wreck someone’s home against his will. You two wrecked your home on your own, before I ever came on the scene. And anyway, you had an affair too, so I know you understand. However, I still owe you several apologies beyond the apology for my original sin. I am sorry I believed the things she said about you. She told me that you were dumb. She said it without malice or animosity — just presented it as a fact; you weren’t that smart and therefore she was bored with you. And felt you were a looser. Now I’m t