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San Diego Jewish World
San Diego Jewish World
Breaking the Spell by Rocky Smolin © 2021; ISBN 9798797-728153l; 324 pages, $13.99 paperback, $3.99 Kindle via Amazon. SAN DIEGO – When the man and woman drawn to each other are both septuagenarians you know this will not be the usual type of love story, although a love story it is. Roger and Frannie had been college friends who never reached intimacy, although secretly both had desired it. They reconnected 50 years after their graduations, both now single. Frannie was divorced from her husband; Roger was a widower. Both were lonely, and if you had the occasion to probe their thoughts, they bo…