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September 1, 2008
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In her new memoir, "Epilogue," author Anne Roiphe chronicles her sudden widowhood and attempts, at age 72, to date again in the Internet era. She spoke with NEWSWEEK's Katie Baker.
Have e-mail and the Web made things easier than when you dated as a young woman?
This is a great addition to my life. Most of the people I know don't know anybody who is single and available. If I go to a party, there aren't single men there. Let's start with that. So I would never meet anybody.
Your book is a contrast to Joan Didion's "The Year of Magical Thinking," where she's almost stuck in amber after her husband's death.
What interested me was the place [Didion] wasn't able ...
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