At 72, She Fell in Love With a Man 30 Years Younger — Her Children Called It Shameful, But They Didn’t Know the Whole Truth

Margaret Whitmore had not felt her heart race like that in decades. At seventy-two, she had grown used to silence. Since her husband Thomas passed five years earlier, the large colonial house in Cedar Ridge felt less like a home and more like an echo chamber. Her children visited on holidays. They called when they remembered. They loved her—she believed …