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The Worst Day was the Best Day Recounts France ’83

Kim France ’83 was the editor of a very popular shopping magazine for 10 years, then one day she wasn’t.

“They say that sometimes we don’t truly realize what we are oppressed by until we are no longer oppressed by it,” said Ms. France in an article she wrote about how what could have been the worst day of her life, the day she was fired from said magazine, was actually the best thing that could have happened to her.

Since that day Ms. France has started a blog, Girls of a Certain Age. In her posts she sprinkles fashion advice with first date tips for women in their forties. “But mostly, of course, it is about shopping: online, in boutiques, in massive chains and tiny fleas and anywhere else that money can be exchanged for goods,” she said on the blog’s A Few Words page.