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Mar 29

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It’s Time For Women To Reclaim ‘Midlife Crisis’ As Theirs

It never was about men, sports cars and younger babes, and it isn’t purely negative either.

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Mention “midlife crisis” and it’s bound to bring up visuals. A balding man in a red sports car with a much younger woman in the passenger seat? Maybe.

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Vicki Larson

Vicki Larson

Award-winning journalist, author of “Not Too Old For That: How Women are Changing the Story of Aging,” coauthor of “The New I Do,” mom

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