Some Find Comfort in Online Memorials: ; Web Sites Devoted to Lost Loved Ones Help Family, Friends Grieve

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Days after his wife's death from inflammatory breast cancer in 2004, Michael Bloomer set up a Web page memorial. An old co-worker from Florida signed Kim Bloomer's online guest book. So did a high school classmate in Michigan.

For Bloomer, a retired government worker who lives in Dumfries, Va., the memorial page became a soothing place where he could read stories, receive condolences and even reach out to his wife by posting his own messages: "Hi Honey. ... It's only been about a month since you left, but it seems like ages since we laughed and loved when the days were normal and you were without pain. I miss you so much it hurts inside."

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Some Find Comfort in Online Memorials: ; Web Sites Devoted to Lost Loved Ones Help Family, Friends Grieve

Bloomer says he frequented the online memorial in the first year to read new postings or to reread old ones. "It was kind of like a lasting tribu...

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