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Losing her husband was devastating. Dating at fifty was just undignified. Debbie had been with George since she was eighteen. When he died of cancer after thirty-two years together, she had to reconcile with a husband who’d died in denial of his illness, leaving behind guilt, regret, and the question she could no longer avoid: Who are you when you’ve always been half of someone else? Seeking the answer—and trying to outrun loneliness—Debbie found herself doing things she’d never imagined: writing an online dating profile, trying to play well with others, and discovering that many single middle-aged men were single for a reason. She began to feel like the kind of girl you’d mess around with in your Trans Am, but wouldn’t take to the prom.