#sympathy

#sympathy

A newly widowed young-ish woman receives a thoughtful letter from her close friend about her dearly departed husband and cash falls out of it. This is not a teenager's birthday card from a well-meaning but emotionally unavailable grandpa. This is an adult woman who, higher education notwithstanding, wants to maintain her dignity after her husband's death.

Affections are the mental expression of emotions, contrasting with passions, which are involuntary feelings arising in the body, highlighting their significant differences in human experience.