Definition: In this task, you will be given a short story. One sentence from the story is chosen. Consider the events that happen before that sentence, or are likely to have happened before it. Does any of them directly cause it, or simply make it possible? You should write your answer in the form " A >causes/enables> B". Try to use phrases and sentences from the story to compose your answer when possible.
Input: story: Ethel was terrified of growing old alone. She kept a tight leash on her husband. Ethel couldn't allow him to go more than an hour without calling. Or texting, as he was doing when he missed the curve and crashed. Ethel lives alone, with nobody to blame for it but herself.
 selected sentence: Ethel lives alone, with nobody to blame for it but herself.

Ethel 's husband dies >Causes/Enables> Ethel lives alone