In the background of the text, a black and white photo of the author, Jody Day, blurred and indistinct, ghostly. The text reads: "The 3am bag lady blues: scaring yourself about ageing alone without children"
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'But who's going to be there for me when I'm old? is a thought that keeps many women without children awake at 3am. And in that 'hour of the wolf' as they call it in Russia... '
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https://jodyday.substack.com
In my latest essay, I explore the 'bag lady' fantasy that haunts the minds of so many women ageing without children, and perhaps even more so those also without partners. And I unpack my own surprising response to meeting my own inner bag lady.
jodyday.substack.com/p/the-3am-ba...
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