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elainer I thought I was reading about me. I'm not in my sixties but 84 so you could be my daughter. My oldest daughter is 61. I wish I could stop thinking about what I should or could have done in my life. I think there is something about being a Jewish only child. I was expected to get married and have a family but that's all that was expected of me, especially in my era. My first marriage to my high school sweetheart ended in divorce. We had two daughters. Since I thought I was supposed to be married I married someone else too soon afterward. We have been married for 51 years but were separated twice. My 61 year old daughter was widowed instantly in December of 2024. One minute her husband was in the kitchen the next he was gone. I was just visiting for Passover and asked her if she would ever marry again and she said no. This was her only boyfriend that she met her first day of college. I wish I had done more with my life.

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I am 83. Getting married and having kids was all that was expected of most women in the U S. That’s all I expected of myself and I went to college primarily to find a man to marry. (My grades showed that learning was not all that important to me; I barely managed to graduate.) But I was lucky. I found the right man. It lasted for 55 years until he died at 76.