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At fifty, Alice Gregory discovers that she can’t really see anymore. So she buys a pair of drugstore reading glasses, strength +1, and her suburban life looks magically more inviting. Outside the circle of marriage and family, shrinking as her three sons grow up and leave home, fresh vistas open. The illness of a new friend, an encounter with a recently divorced childhood companion, and her re...
At fifty, Alice Gregory discovers that she can’t really see anymore. So she buys a pair of drugstore reading glasses, strength +1, and her suburban life looks magically more inviting. Outside the circle of marriage and family, shrinking as her three sons grow up and leave home, fresh vistas open. The illness of a new friend, an encounter with a recently divorced childhood companion, and her re...
