Is There Still Sex in the City

it’s something women like me have been trained to do: show your vagina to at least one person a year. Or else.

And so we did what we’d done years ago, before there were husbands and children, demanding careers and all kinds of heartbreak: We gathered together to figure it out.

Kitty was my only friend who unreservedly believed in true love.

one was quite sure that the future would take care of itself

Welcome to middle-age madness, where your career might possibly be over.

Was engaging in the relationship cycle the only thing I could do with my life?

I was so broke. But it didn’t matter because everything was happening and it was all new and exciting.

One of the things you learn about middle age is that life is not a movie

I wasn’t sure I could. It had been a very long time since I’d done a piece of “journalism.” But I still remembered one rule: Go in with an open mind. Don’t decide what the story is before you write it.

I wasn’t ready to start dating. But most of all, I didn’t want to. I’d been in relationships for nearly thirty-five years. I’d even experienced the full relationship cycle—fall in love, get married, and get sectionorced.
And now I was supposed to do it all over again? Was engaging in the relationship cycle the only thing I could do with my life?