“I just got my braces four months ago. I never had them. My parents never spent the money, so now I have the money and it is the time to do it. I still have to get the bottom ones on. I am a high school librarian. I have a bachelor’s and master’s degree and just finished an Ed.S. in library. I have been doing school work for 15 years and now that I am done I don’t know what to do with myself. I am staying at my daughter’s apartment until she comes down. There is a pier where I can drink wine and watch the sun go down. I just had a pedicure to match my bathing suit because that is what I am living in all week. I don’t like not having anything to do, but I don’t have plans for the summer because I am recovering from a disastrous love affair and needed to get away. I blocked all of his phone numbers so there is no contact. We had been going out for a year and then I found out he is married. It is hard to meet good men where I live. My husband left me 14 years ago and I hadn’t dated until now. When my husband left my counselor told me to write about it and I wrote about until my hand hurt.”