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The author, who entranced readers with her candor in Blackout (2015), a memoir of her years of alcoholism, brings the same unsparing honesty to her search for true love. She explains that in her 20s, she chose a big, unconventional life: adventure, a career, and the things unavailable to her mother, whose “small radius” existence Hepola semi-pitied, always assuming this path “would double back at some point and deliver” her to a husband and a child. Instead, at 45, in a therapist’s office, chron

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The author, who entranced readers with her candor in Blackout (2015), a memoir of her years of alcoholism, brings the same unsparing honesty to her search for true love. She explains that in her 20s, she chose a big, unconventional life: adventure, a career, and the things una...

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Right: Coverage gap: Currently unaddressed by verified outlets on this side of the spectrum.

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