I don’t usually wear lipstick. With tears in her eyes, she said there’d been no one serious in her life since her marriage ended, and she was resigned to dying alone. There I was, telling a friend half my age that sometimes, no matter how much you want it, love may never show up. My life was half over, and I was on the express train to Lonelyville: a singles room in the nursing home. I had to change course, but it wasn’t as simple as just “getting back out there.”

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