Autumn Romance: Stories and Portraits of Love after 50
Carol Denker
Language: English
Pages: 132
ISBN: 0615314414
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
This gorgeous coffee table book makes a wonderful gift for those who are looking for love—for those who found it—and for all who love reading about miracles and healing. Here are 29 true, inspiring love stories, in which the participants are all over 50. Some had to travel hard roads to find happiness. Through these heartwarming tales, we come to see that the best love of all may enter once we truly understand ourselves.
“The photos alone are worth the price,” says Pepper Schwartz, Love and Relationship Expert for AARP. Beautiful black-and-white images show that love keeps us young, that sex never dies— that happiness and age make a lovely combination.
In an addendum, the book’s couples give advice, how to find and keep love. They also share the unexpected advantages to an “autumn romance.”
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was the heart beneath his starched white shirt. "La vi," Alfonso says simply. "I saw her." Now all Alfonso could think about was Manuela's walk — "like a song" — and her "beautiful face." Even as he sat at Manuela's table for lunch each day and talked with her quietly, a storm raged within. Then one afternoon he let it all out. Manuela was singing by herself in the center's music room when Alfonso opened the door and handed her a poem: "A Mi Musa — To My Inspiration." Manuela sat down. She
say, 'My wife has the most beautiful operatic singing voice in the world.'" "It's not as good as it was." Sue's voice is wistful. As a young girl, Sue yearned to study opera. But her parents couldn't afford singing lessons. With her first husband, she opened up a corner beauty shop. "I liked the shop," she says. "I loved talking to all the people. But my husband had ambitions to grow. He went to Reading and had someone construct a building for a hair cutting emporium and he wound up in such
electrical engineer by training. A devoted father and husband — until age 43, when his protests over unfair treatment at work snowballed into a legal nightmare. Warren became obsessed with his case. His children withdrew from the angry man he'd become. His wife divorced him. He never again worked as an engineer. Warren found solace in literature and philosophy. He thought of himself as a rebel. But inside, he was still a sensitive, loving man, with no one to love. He would walk his dogs at night
was overweight. In our society, those are two things that have no value. I think we both needed to be loved for just ourselves. And that's what happened." As they lived the accepting lifestyle outlined in "The Couples Song" — Bob often taking his cue from Wanda — improvements appeared in their individual lives. Bob's business took off. Wanda found herself motivated to hit the gym. "One of the effects of this relationship was that I started to love myself more and take care of myself more," says
older women? The answer reveals love's essence: The spirit is what we truly fall in love with; the body is merely the vessel. RJ disembarked from the airplane with Esther's high school photo displayed around his neck, as if to say, bodies may age, but It's still you; it's still me ... Like everyone else in this chapter, he learned how rare and precious love is and how far he was willing to go to have it in his life. These couples discovered love was better the second time around because they