since she expected women to be more sociable than men, but she wondered what the men were doing instead. It didn’t take her long to find out. She simply needed to look out the window, where she found them in the parking lot, alone in their cars, reading the newspaper, waiting for their wives. Many spent hours like this several times a week, year after year, until they died. Their much-healthier wives then survived them as widows. Suspecting that social disconnection was contributing to the men’s declining health, Maxine thought the guys would benefit just as much as their wives from the
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