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By Carol Denker

Autumn Romance is a gorgeous booklet that contradicts the normal knowledge, that after you've wrinkles and years of emotional luggage, then romance is off the desk.

Lavishly illustrated, fantastically designed, Autumn Romance indicates that late-life love isn't just attainable, yet simply will be the simplest one among all. We see how traditional humans, regardless of sorrows and disappointments, retain their hearts open--and how as soon as they've discovered a few nice existence classes, embody the affection that comes their manner.

In Autumn Romance, we see alternative ways they meet: those that knew one another while younger, those that percentage paintings, those that attach online--and the results, which variety from humorous to middle warming to inspiring.

There are those that detect nice intercourse, these whose lifelong hurts get healed, these whose lives are rotated. The tales of twenty-nine undefined, from very diverse cultures and backgrounds, carry a standard thread: how late-life romance could be a soul reward of sizeable proportions. lots of those pleasant stories include plots Hollywood screenwriter might have envied. yet they're all true--proving how notable lifestyles could be!

The images embrace the book's groundbreaking essence: rather than having a look clear of age, as we've got been taught, 16 world-class photographers seemed age within the face--and came upon every kind of good looks. They captured the essence of every couple's connection in lovely black and white photos. those beautiful images shout the reality, that real love isn't really approximately loss of wrinkles, yet relatively, how spirits really attach.

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In the societies to which these families are attached and which we might call ‘holistic’, collective interests prevail over individual ones and a person’s identity is determined by the role assigned by the group. The criteria used for choosing a husband are based more on his potential capacity for founding and rearing a family 38 Laura Cardia-Vonèche and Benoit Bastard than on personal affinities, and on matrimonial strategies favorable to the group. 5 The sharing of household chores leaves women in charge of the domestic sphere.

They decided 3 B Bastard, L Cardia-Vonèche, M-A Mazoyer (with S Ruspoli and S Voiturin), Monoparentalité et santé. Les conséquences de la rupture familiale sur la prise en charge de la santé dans la famille (Paris, CSO, 1999). See also: B Bastard, L Cardia-Vonèche, ‘Ruptures conjugales et prise en charge de la santé dans la famille’ (1999) Cahiers de démographie et de sociologie médicales no 2–3, 231−51. Why Some Children see their Father and Others do not 31 together, and to their mutual satisfaction, on how the children could go from one parent’s home to the other.

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