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"You know people like me. I'm the one who sat on a folding chair out in the hall with a cigar box on my lap, selling tickets to the prom, but never going to one. I'm the one everybody liked but nobody wanted to be with". A self-anointed spinster at fifty-one, Myra Lipinsky has endured the isolation of her middle life by doting on her dog, Frank, and immersing herself in her career as a visiting nurse. Myra considers herself reasonably content, telling herself, It's enough, work and Frank. And it has been enough -- until Chip Reardon, the too-good-to-be-true golden boy she adored from afar in high school, is assigned to be her new patient. Choosing to forgo invasive treatment of an incurable illness, Chip has returned from Manhattan to the New England home of his childhood to spend what time
