Sixty-two-year-old Eleanor never planned on falling in love again. After thirty years of marriage and five years of quiet widowhood, her world consisted of gardening, book club, and Sunday phone calls with her grandkids. Romance, she figured, was for the young.

Six months later, Victor moved in. They still take pottery class. They still hold hands. And every evening, Eleanor watches him read the newspaper in her— their —sunroom, and she thinks: This is the big relationship I never knew I was waiting for.

He was sixty-five, with kind eyes and hands dusted in clay. He didn't try to be charming—he just was. He saved her a seat. He remembered she liked peppermint tea. He laughed when her lopsided bowl collapsed on the wheel.

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