Melinda Blau

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Why Old-Lady “Matchmaking” Doesn’t Work

August 13, 2019 by Melinda Blau

My “old ladies,” a cadre of role-model older women whose friendships I’ve cultivated for the last 25 years, don’t know each other.  Except for 88-year-old Betty and Marge, 101, who both live in my building, the rest either can’t meet or don’t want to.   And yet, I keep thinking they might like each other.  Twenty-plus […]

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