Drover: Age, Nothing But a Number -- Lady Senior Citizen Goes Back to Square One -- Of Dating

BURLINGTON, Mass., Nov. 4, 2009 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Anne Drover dismisses age as but a number as she pursues a quest to find love, which she recounts in The Reluctant Cougar, her memoir published through Xlibris. In her book, Drover gives a witty account of going back to dating in the cyber-age at the age of seventy-three.

After her second divorce puts her out on the singles market again, Drover dismisses her biological getting-on and grabs life by the reins to find that kind loving man with whom to share her life. In The Reluctant Cougar, Drover recounts the various fascinating experiences of being a single and searching senior citizen and the eventual awakening of the fierce cougar that had slept within.

Drover will regale readers with the comical side of a senior woman who goes back to dating, to discover that a great lot has changed since. She reveals of the flood of emails a titillating screen name elicits in cyber-dating, and the excitement of trysting with the "cubs." As she comes to accept and become the sizzling cougar that she is, Drover will take readers along the heart-stopping final stretch of her search. She offers a parting poem in her book for those who want to join her.

"We are programmed to believe that the spring and summer of our lives are the most interesting and exciting parts of the time we spend on this earth," Drover comments. "[But] it is more about who we are as individuals; our willingness to accept our physical and emotional changes, and certainly to open our hearts and minds to changes in time, and life's circumstances."

For more information on The Reluctant Cougar, readers can log on to www.Xlibris.com.

About the Author

Anne Drover, the youngest of ten children, was born and raised in the Woodville section of Hopkinton, Massachusetts, where she also attended school, graduating from Hopkinton High School with the class of 1953. She is a 1957 graduate of the State College in Worcester, Massachusetts, with a Bachelor of Science in Education. Although the author loved writing from an early age, prior to her book, The Reluctant Cougar, she has only published poetry. She is the mother of five children and a loving and interactive grandmother of ten.

               The Reluctant Cougar * by Anne Drover
                 Publication Date: October 6, 2009
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