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One Saturday morning, a woman packs a suitcase and walks out the door
leaving behind a husband of 35 years. So begins the clock on a year like
no other in his first 60. Handed a life do-over, everything is on the table
as he considers overhauling his old self and plotting a new future. This
new, old bachelor decides to wade into the dating pool of other lonely
middle-agers and gets up to speed on the ways of modern love.
He meets a woman named Wendy on a dating site for the 55+ crowd. It is
an unlikely union of opposites, a romance between a cautious and sensible
college professor and a quirky, adventurous woman. She comes with her
own unique story of loneliness and searching. With her husband in decline
from Alzheimer's, the author finds himself navigating a unique ménage à
trois: a married man waiting for divorce and a married woman who is in
love with two men, old and new, herself a widow in waiting.
My Year with Wendy is a story about second loves and second acts, the
felicities of finding romance late in life, and learning to move on without
forgetting. Told with humor and poignancy, the author shares his unique
year with observations on starting over, the vagaries of aging, the joy and
complexities of togetherness in middle age, and the nature of love itself.
And from the devastation of Alzheimer's is revealed the tenacity of the
human heart for love. By year's end, the author will come to know the
miracle and mystery of the human spirit and be granted a precious glimpse
into what could be the most powerful force in the universe.
