Alone for the Holidays? These Women Aren’t Having It

Nancy Bauer
Nov 7 · 4 min read

Kathleen King had spent one Christmas alone, and she wanted no part of another.

Like many women in her age group — she’s 66 — her parents have passed, and her once-close siblings have splintered off into their own lives. Her only daughter has a law office in San Francisco, six states away from Kathleen’s home in Wisconsin, and anyway, this Christmas she’s traveling. So Kathleen was looking at another “awful” holiday on her own.

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