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A photograph of a young woman reminds Kennedy Fraser of being single and adrift in Manhattan in the 1980s.
In 1980, when VOGUE published this photograph of a charming, clueless waif rummaging in her frivolous purse, I was in my 30s. I should have been too old and well established to recognize myself in her at all. But I was divorced and living alone in Manhattan. Some part of me was doing fine, but another part had serious doubts as to whether I could make it. Sometimes my life felt as fragile as the biodegradable grocery bags. My heart goes out to this young woman with her dry cleaning and the shopping that seems more poignant than practical: Glad bags, S.O.S ...