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Elinor Lipman on Learning to Enjoy Widowhood
Suzy Weiss
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The novelist talks about her late husband, her current “husband-like friend,” and how to cope with widowhood.

Read Elinor’s essay, “The Surprising Pleasures of Widowhood,” here, and Joe Nocera’s introduction to Ancient Wisdom, a new series from The Free Press.

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a reporter and producer for The Free Press. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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