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Encore: May-December Romances

Dear Sugars

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Are You Dating a Guy Who's 12 Years Older Than You?

Cheryl Strayed and Steve Almond talk with Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Lucinda Frank. She's writing about her marriage to a man who's 27 years older than her. Her husband is Robert Mergenthau, a famous district attorney for the New York City borough of Manhattan. The pair met when she was 69 and he was 96; they've been together ever since.

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