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The daughter of a hardworking sharecropper in Arkansas, Loretta longed for something better. Determined to escape poverty, she left the farm to live with relatives in Little Rock two days after graduating from high school. Within a year she headed west and began her new life in Los Angeles.

This is not your typical, "we were poor, but never knew it" account of one who grew up happy though penniless during the Great Depression. Far from it, Loretta reveals, "I despised my life of painful embarrassing poverty." Her anthology of personal stories demonstrates a deep desire to improve...

The daughter of a hardworking sharecropper in Arkansas, Loretta longed for something better. Determined to escape poverty, she left the farm to live with relatives in Little Rock two days after graduating from high school. Within a year she headed west and began her new life in Los Angeles.

This is not your typical, "we were poor, but never knew it" account of one who grew up happy though penniless during the Great Depression. Far from it, Loretta reveals, "I despised my life of painful embarrassing poverty." Her anthology of personal stories demonstrates a deep desire to improve...

Diana drinks with the confidence that she'll never be an alcoholic. Alcohol makes its entrance early in her life as she sees its miraculous power to bring peace to her incessantly quarreling parents. It follows her on a trip to New Jersey where she gets into her first trouble because she steps out for a drink with her the lover of her hostess who she later learns is her older sister's boyfriend. In college she is vilified by students protesting an editorial she wrote deploring the behavior of drunken frat brothers. She finds her future husband in a dance hall attached to a liquor store. Once...

Aging for Kay Mehl Miller becomes problematic when John dies. Suddenly single at 73 and alone for the first time in her life, she has lost the sense and significance of having a life of her own. Since most of her focus had been on caring for John in his final years, Kay is no longer sure who she is or what to do next. Is her own life over? Hardly. Experiences we have in aging are personal; we either learn from them or get stuck in them. Looking for comfort, Kay goes to church and is pleasantly surprised when she is asked to play bridge Accepting the invitation is her first step toward...

A novel for all who are aging and long for love in their lives. Carol, still grieving Mario's death, finds it hard to wrap her mind around the reality: she is in love again, fiercely in love, this time with a man never seen, a man with a voice never heard, a man living 1600 miles away. Eighty-year-old Ellis, equally incredulous, knows he loves Carol for he falls under her spell when he reads the seventy-eight-year-old author's book on her own aging. Complete strangers when they meet playing bridge in a virtual Internet game room, they begin an email courtship fraught with doubt and...