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A Round Heeled Woman
Jane Juska
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Author goes to a movie which changes her life. French film about two friends, one married, one single. Married one secretly places a lonely hearts ad for her friend and complications ensue.
JJ identifies with the single woman even tho a lot younger - independant and stubborn, proud and lonely, divorced and cynical, devoted to her work she swears she wants nothing to do with men. Yet knows that the absence of men from her life, while bearable, is not desirable.
A teacher for more than 40 years high school, college and prison, and misses the casual human contact and energy.
So classified ad in Literary mag - "Before I turn 67 - next march - I would like to have a lot of sex with a man I like. If you want to talk first, Trollope works for me." Reply to Box .... (The ad cost $136!)
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