From free spirit, to married and emotionally dependent, to emotionally needy widow. And as such, she made me think of a drama queen teenage girl with a crush (she may even have described herself that way at one point; I can't remember) on a hotty met in Greece. One of the last sentences reads: "She didn't define herself by anybody else's need of her", but it was a long, tedious, even boring road getting there. Somehow, it reminded me of Looking for Mr. Goodbar in the way she seemed to need sex to identify herself. Didn't much like it; it's message, if there was one, didn't resonate with me. On to other, better reads . . . . . .
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