Sentence:  And she was made to fall in love with him again there in the rutted dirt driveway standing in the cold fog , mad as she was at his going away when he really did n't have to , mad at their both got older in a <WSD>life</WSD> that seemed to have taken no more than a week to go by . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death)