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Is 50 too late for a first trip to Paris? Can an old marriage survive the author's expectations of the city of light and love? This honest essay explores the challenges travel places on a marriage and the unexpected sweetness of affection revived.

When a northern California dilettante retreats to a convent for a week of introspection, writing, and a Thomas Merton study group, she is forced to confront her core beliefs. Is less truly more? Can generosity be learned? Forgiveness practiced? In this humorous send-up, short story writer Audrey Ferber channels one woman's empty nest grief and unsatisfiable desires.

Devastated by the early death of her best friend, the author forges a relationship with her friend’s severely disabled adult daughter. This essay tackles assumptions about disability and loss and details how a shared love of clothing, laughter, and their mutual need for warmth and intimacy revives the connection to the dead friend the author feared was forever lost.