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When life gives you lemons, making lemonade isn't your only option.

So what happens when you're back at square one at age fifty? Suddenly back in a game, although never having experienced it, with less than adequate surviving skills at best.

Meet Julia, a proud Cuban American born and raised in an old school traditional Cuban family. Divorced at fifty but ready to live, or better yet survive.

Tossed into a lion pit of self-discovery, dating, online dating, happy hours, learning the value of friendship and the many facets of trust, including self, Julia's journey begins.

Follow her path down the rabbit hole of a new life all the way to paving the new passage toward her promising and exciting future.

Endearing, relatable, funny, and sweet are just a few words to describe Julia's new world.

Maite Irene Merino is a born and raised "Miami Cuban", which is a local reference to a traditionally Cuban raised Miamian. Basically, growing up in the legal field, raised among law books where she began working at the age of 16, almost 40 years later, her passion for writing drove her to finally finish her first novel a lifetime later. There is no stopping her now. Already deep into her second book prior to even publishing her first, she stays busy and present writing, including travel and local entertainment articles, as well as running a YouTube Channel, always ready to help women like her, over 50 and basically thrown into starting a new life.

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Soltera: A Virtual Event with Maite Irene Merino and Vanessa Reyes