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"HER" and Other Extremes
A Guide for Older Men Who Fall
in Love With Younger Women

1-58124-951-9 • 978-1-58124-951-4
Genre: Non-fiction
Author: Jack Turley
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NOVEMBER 22—TUESDAY: The reflexes have softened and diffused. The eyes no longer have it, at least not without reading glasses. The musculature, that lean, taut, youthful body I misused so well, has retired to Memory Lane. What's left is the "essence," not the original. And we all know that "essence" in this age of zipless sex and eternal youth, does not pay the rent.

Is this the bottom line of the aging process? Is this what I have left, a premature dotage shoved down my shrieking throat?
Jack Turley has written scores of episodes and movies for television and once served as a staff writer for General Hospital, the longest-running daytime soap on the air. One of his TV movies—Peter Lundy and the Medicine Hat Stallion—was nominated for an Emmy and won a "Wrangler" award from the National Cowboy Hall of Fame. His credits also include Empire of the Ants—a Sci-Fi movie which has become a cult classic. Jack's affection for humor is evident in his first novel, The Mother Goose Gang, a romantic thriller he has adapted into a screenplay. Another project, which Jack describes as his most difficult endeavor, is: Alzheimer's, Will I be Next?—a vivid memoir of his mother's descent into the darkness of Alzheimer's Disease. Both books are published by The Fiction Works. Jack lives in Santa Barbara, California.