Deborah K. Shepherd shares new memoir, ‘An Old Man’s Darling’

BANGOR, Maine (WABI) - Deborah K. Shepherd is a retired social worker and late-blooming author whose work draws on a career supporting survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.

In An Old Man’s Darling: A Memoir, Shepherd revisits her first great love—Bill, a senior executive 34 years her senior—beginning with her 1968 leap from college life in Tucson to New York’s counterculture and the unlikely relationship that followed. What starts as a “fling” becomes a 20-year partnership and a family, tested by age, religion, and public judgment. With the benefit of hindsight and rediscovered love letters, Shepherd asks hard questions about feminism, faith, and what romantic love really demands—without offering easy answers.

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