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George Harrison's Widow Talks of Life, Death Through Poetry

Olivia Harrison, widow of musician George Harrison, appears at the World premiere of the film "Eight days a week" in London on Sept. 15, 2016. Harrison released a book of poetry, "Came the Lightening: Twenty Poems for George." (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth, File)
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New York (AP) -- The first line of Olivia Harrison's book of poetry captures a feeling universal to everyone who has lost a loved one. “All I wanted was another spring,” she writes. “Was it so much to ask?”

Through the verses that follow that question, the widow of former Beatle George Harrison opens up about her husband, and about grieving after he died of lung cancer at the age of 58 on Nov. 29, 2001.

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