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Personal Narrative: Mid-Life Dating
“He and I are the only two divorced guys we know and having both come out of long-term marriages at about the same time and now finding ourselves in this bizarre Neverland of mid-life dating; we are the Lost Boys, the blind leading the blind in a land where the one-eyed man is king, if only we could find him and learn. But we haven’t, so we improvise because our prior dating experience dates so far back it’s listed in Webster’s under courting.”

Tucker Blue was headed to Barcelona, flying standby on a companion pass of his stewardess girlfriend Ebba. When he gets bumped off he makes his way to the bar where he meets again the beautiful woman he was talking to before he boarded. Wanting to turn their chance encounter into an adventure they

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