Why I’m Taking a Gap Year at 60
After a lifetime of living other people’s stories, I’m finally choosing my own
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5 min readMar 19, 2019
I’m turning 60 soon and I’m finally taking my gap year. I meant to do it sooner, at age 22 or 25, but I was too old back then and way too sure of everything.
I knew women who gallivanted off to Europe at age 18 or right after college. “Loose girls,” my…
