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As a lonely empty nester, Kate Silva turns to the World Wide Web for companionship. Born, raised, and stuck in a small town, she finds her world enlarging by joining various discussion groups.With her husband gone, her children off to college, her fortieth birthday looming, and total rejection from someone she had come to depend on for happiness, Kate descends into a black hole of self-pity. Feeling ugly and alone, she is on the verge of becoming a social recluse.Then Kate accidentally makes online contact with a childhood friend, and begins to pull herself out of her personal dungeon. Through online dating deceptions, failed face to face meetings, and surprising schoolmate revelations, Kate finds that she*ll survive life after forty.