Dana Bennett
1 min readNov 12, 2023

I don't know about the "in love" part - as much as I do know about the "I would like to have an interesting conversation with an intelligent being, talk about books we've both read or find out about new books, new thoughts and people to think about. I'm 76, went through a very long illness (ending in an organ transplant) and also, ya know, in a not so beneficial pecuniary situation - like spent two pensions, lost my great condo in a great neighborhood, oh, and my car, too - so, I COULD be attracted to some guy with money. But that's pretty creepy. SO, I don't even really look. Yes, I'm attractive and all but - phew! talk about trauma! Complex PTSD - meaning as a child, and then the very long and tortured existence as a medically tortured patient. Besides, I am STILL a sapiosexual and want a brilliant man (I do have brilliant girl friends) - I'd have to be in a very special place. I recently had a very young guy come onto me through WhatsApp - scammer - and his grammar was - hard to describe! I'm a writer. Wrote three romance novels while I was sick. I'm gonna stick to fiction, it turns out. And try to get more Democrats to win, make abortion legal again (yeah, I fought for ROE!!! with Gloria Steinem, those days) and enjoy my super duper black kitty! She doesn't reject my approaches to her!!! <3

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Dana Bennett
Dana Bennett

Written by Dana Bennett

has survived, achieved many things. Storyteller. BAMus, Univ. of Hawaii. MHumanities, Univ. of Colorado Denver. Liver Transplant, Cleveland Clinic.

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