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368 pages, Hardcover
First published June 7, 2016
Georgia Young is an accomplished middle aged black woman with her own medical practice. She is the mother of two beautiful daughters and is surrounded by a cast of sister-friends. She’s seems to have her act together. But one day she finds out that one of her past loves has died. It bothers her that she never told him how she felt for him when they were younger and she questions what may have been. Georgia reevaluates her life and realizes that for all of her successes she is not just alone but lonely; not just bored but unfulfilled. She decides to throw caution to the wind and start life anew - sell her house, leave her optometry practice and while she’s at it look up all the men she’s loved before.
Overall I Almost Forgot About You was a fun read. I enjoyed the relationships between Georgia and her friends and I liked the idea of being able to reinvent yourself and find true love at any age. What I didn’t really like was how most of the men were good-for-nothings who you wouldn’t wish on your worst enemy much less than a sister-friend like Georgia. Also, the character
When we're young, we think we're always going to be young. We thought life was going to be one long party. One thrill after another. We knew we could get over heartache and disappointment and failure in a snap, because we were going to get hundreds if not thousands of opportunities and do-overs. We knew that success and happiness and love were in the cards. We didn't worry about the future. We were more worried about the next time we were going to get laid.
Now you fall across the bed when you're not sleepy but just tired of the way you live--or aren't living. From the outside you shouldn't be complaining, but success and a good credit score can't love you.