Winslow, whose wife died recently, told his friend Ted, "I would like to meet a woman who has lost her husband and marry again. She would understand what I'm going through." Ted's response, having read the latest statistics in the paper, was "Good luck with that. You know there are about _____ times more of us than them."

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Statistics often show that women tend to live longer than men, leading to a higher number of widows compared to widowers. This results in there being approximately four times more widows than widowers.

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