F. Scott Fitzgerald said there were no second acts in American lives, yet at least as far as love is concerned, statistics indicate otherwise. And how different is the game at age fifty-five or sixty from what it was at age twenty-five? An engaging meditation on the ways that love alters and matures as we grow older, this book is organized around the distinct and often surprising themes that emerged from Alison Leslie Gold's conversations with lovers from all walks of life: love suddenly appearing out of the shadows after a determination to find it at any cost; second-act relationships that represent 180-degree turns for the parties involved; and a sense of finally coming home to the person one was meant to be with. Book jacket.