Reborn, Finding True Love on Fifth Avenue

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The crystal chandeliers of the Mandarin Oriental in Midtown Manhattan were blinding.

I had just come from an eighteen-hour bypass surgery at Mount Sinai, utterly exhausted.

I wanted to go straight home, but this was my twelve-year high school reunion.

So, I grabbed a spare black knit sweater and dark slacks from my locker at the hospital, tidied myself up, and headed out.

This was the reunion for Saint Jude Preparatory School.

When I arrived in the hotel lobby, a concierge politely guid