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Article: Older Can Be Better.(dating older men)
- Article from:
- Ebony
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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IN recent months, there has been much hullabaloo about the virtues of women dating and marrying younger men. Terry McMillan's popular book and the subsequent movie, How Stella Got Her Groove Back, have inspired women around the globe to seek out and openly praise the positives of younger men.
Yet, a persistent chorus can be heard from in-the-know females who assert what we all have assumed or known for decades, even centuries: The older man has many desirable qualities that should not be overlooked by today's Black woman.
"I've always preferred older men," says Ray Wilburn, a juvenile counselor in Bolivar, Tenn., who is divorced and the mother of an ...