Day four. After eleven hours of sleep and a slow morning walk, something starts to lift. A Thanksgiving dinner at a friend's apartment turns into a late-night conversation in a parked car — about creativity, community, and what it means to be single in your fifties. Plus: a new flat in the running, a local bakery, and the first real feeling of turning a corner.

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