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Jan likened herself to her favourite TV show, 'Desperate Housewives', although she wasn't evena housewife (she worked for the telephone company and wasn't even married) she was certainly desperate. She was one of those people who things always go wrong for, everybody else can see it except her, but it wasalways someone else's fault. She was always 'between boyfriends' and didn't seem to realise that if you seem too keen you just scare the blokes away. She soon got a reputation and any half decent chap wouldn't actually go near her. There was the one time when she had decided to go further afield and hadbeen looking at dating websites, within a few weeks she was telling everyone that she had a gorgeous new boyfriend called Tim, only thing was that she found out later that Tim also had a gorgeous wife. Even dating websites couldn't seem to help her find the happiness she so vigorously sought. Undeterred, she would just try to 're-invent herself' as she put it, maybe change her hair colour or start listening to classical music to make herself more interesting, and then back to the dating websites. She was unbelievable but you were always sure of abit of entertainmentwhenever you met her. She was always getting herself into some kind of scrape or another, one minute she was thinking that an engagement was on the cards, only to find out that the 'special dinner' which her present boyfriend had planned was to try and break up gently with her. It always ended in tears. Then one day, wham, it seemed like her world had fallen into place at last. She met Larry (through one of the dating websites) and was head over heels in love (or so she kept telling herself and everybody else). He was a little older than her (38 years older to be exact), and not exactly the good looking type she was usually attracted to, he was a retired music teacher who had lived alone, just him, his piano, his record collections and his cats, since his wife had died 20 years before. The problem was that Jan had re-invented herself so many times that the person she ended up was nothing like her at all. She decided that it wasa small price to pay, she would happily listen to Schubert and Mozart, as long as she had someone to love her and put a ring on her finger.