Lauren smiled.  "So, I thought older men were supposed to be more experienced, more patient, into the whole woman thing. That's what they like to say anyway."

"Yeah right."  Tiffany said.   "Don't fool yourself, that's how they get away with it.  The older men I've found are lazy and self-centered, more interested in how they look, which is why they're dating you."

"You know, you might be right," Lauren said. "That's probably why in all those women's romance novels, the formula always involves a woman, who, bored with her much older man, trades him in for the younger stud, goes all the way back to Jacobean drama – they were obsessed with all that."

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