The co-founder of TheLi.st describes the discrimination she endured as a careerwoman without a spouse or child, tracing her midlife journey of self-discovery and how it challenged her beliefs about love, death, sex, friendship, and loneliness

Prologue: Numerology -- Forecast -- Husband material -- Messages from invisible sources -- Woman of a certain age -- Women never really faint -- Jet set -- Choose your own rom-com -- Grown-up -- Having it all -- Showdown -- On the road -- Be careful what you wish for -- Family you make -- Long goodbye begins -- Don't forsake those duties which keep you out of the nuthouse -- Men of a certain age -- What remains -- Other woman -- Women are well-acquainted with thirst -- We are not on the run -- Equality state -- "Balls," said the queen -- Epilogue: There are no happy endings, only good editing