Girls After Fifty 2. On Pause

It’s common knowledge that good fairy tales usually end with the main characters’ wedding. You know—“and I was there, honey and beer I drank.” And everyone sits there, wise from their own experience, wondering what happened next. Did Cinderella put her prince through the brain, or was it the other way around—did he turn into a tyrant and abuser? That’s why truly good fairy tales end with the heroes living happily ever after and dying on the same day. A brilliant prospect, isn’t it?

The first part of the story about girls over fifty ended with the hardworking Cinderella—pardon, the owner of her own beauty salon and, at the same time, the master of that same salon—finally meeting her prince, or, in other words, her dream man, even if only after fifty years of living. And of course, everything was inevitably heading toward a wedding. But—no! The wedding never happened.

“Why so?” you ask quite fairly.

“That’s exactly how it is!” I answer you gleefully.

And here’s why—read the continuation.