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“That everyone is lonely. The difference is that some people have learned to sit with it. You, Eleanor, have not only sat with it—you’ve set a place for it at the table. That takes more courage than any tango.”

She went back to her study. She opened her laptop. And she deleted her search history. Searching for- gigolos in-

When Thursday arrived, she wore her good pearls and the navy blue dress she’d bought for Harold’s retirement party—the one she’d never gotten to wear. She made scones. She set the table in the sunroom. “That everyone is lonely

At exactly two o’clock, the doorbell rang. the doorbell rang.