for Beau

skirt!® is an attitude . . . spirited, independent, outspoken, serious, playful and irreverent, sometimes controversial, always passionate.

Copyright © 2013 by Marion Winik

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Winik, Marion.

Highs in the low fifties : (how I stumbled through the joys of single

living) / Marion Winik.

pages cm

ISBN 978-0-7627-9479-9

1. Winik, Marion. 2. Authors, American—21st century—Biography. 3.

Single women—United States—Humor. I. Title.

PS3623.I66259Z46 2013

818'.603—dc23

[B]

2012050338