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The Other Woman At 75.(Jane Juska)

Vogue

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Old enough to know better, Jane Juska reveals the perils and pleasures of becoming a mistress.

I never planned to be the Other Woman. I came of age in the early fifties, so naturally I expected to be a faithful wife and an exemplary mother. But life, often as not, refuses to heed one's expectations. My marriage fell apart when I was 37; at 50, I had an affair with a married man that almost did me in; and then, at the age of 66, liberated--or so I believed--from any particular expectation at all, I advertised for sex in The New York Review of Books. My ad was wildly successful; I had passionate encounters with all kinds of men, and then I wrote about my adventures ...

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