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"&amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t blame you,&amp;quot; said my best friend Harriet. &amp;quot;I would have done the same thing.&amp;quot; I was tired. Fed up. I&amp;#039;d had enough. And I knew that many women my age rethink their relationships, often deciding to sever their ties. Or as Christiane Northrup puts it in The Wisdom of Menopause, &amp;quot;Our hormones are giving us an opportunity to see, once and for all, what we need to change in order to live honestly, fully, joyfully, and healthfully in the second half of our lives.&amp;quot; My husband&amp;#039;s response? &amp;quot;If that&amp;#039;s what you want,&amp;quot; he said. So after months of admiring the sleek German body, I could no longer control myself and gave in to my lust. I bought my first high-tech vacuum cleaner. Tired of wrestling the highly rated Consumer Reports model that outweighed me two to one, I took it in and traded it for a sleeker, younger machine. One that purrs as it sucks up the dog hair. One that will never let me down. Or it if does, its 7-year-warranty will see to it that I&amp;#039;m continually satisfied. I never thought I could feel this way about an appliance. I&amp;#039;ve wanted this new vacuum for a full year and couldn&amp;#039;t justify the expense or getting rid of the serviceable one we had. But here&amp;#039;s the thing about turning a certain age. I&amp;#039;ve lived half my life and the last several of them with an appliance I hate. I&amp;#039;m too old to be stuck in a relationship that&amp;#039;s not working, I told myself. I want out. I deserve out. Even Max, who had been lobbying for the self-moving robotic vacuum so his Lego figures could ride on top of it, had to admire the new machinery. &amp;quot;I like it, Mommy. It&amp;#039;s very quiet.&amp;quot; So reader, is there something you&amp;#039;ve bought recently that&amp;#039;s made you unexpectedly and deliriously happy? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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