'Dear John, I Love Jane' Editors on Falling for Women Later in Life: Interview

In a climate in which high-profile celebrities including Cynthia Nixon and Wanda Sykes have talked openly about falling for women later in life, in which women often feel freer to explore various aspects of sexuality, some are finding that after years of marriage and / or dating men, that they are attracted to women, and often capable of falling in love with another woman. Editors of Dear John, I Love Jane, Candace Walsh and Laura Andre – a couple in life – inspired by Candace’s later in life lesbian experiences, sought to compile often humorous and heartrending stories of women who came to the realization they were attracted to women after many years as unfettered straight women.