Jack is thirty-five and single once again. He is not, as he as quick to point out, going through a midlife crisis. Still, it would be nice to have a partner.<br><br>So he sets out on an adventure to find the one-time love of his life, Bing, a man he hasn't set eyes on in more than fifteen years, a man who has seemingly vanished off the face of the planet. With the help of his family and friends -- plus the family dog and, of all people, his high school bully -- he goes searching for Bing, only to unearth an ages-old mystery that puts them all in grave danger.<br><br>In this hysterically funny tale of romance and self-discovery, the question remains right up to the surprise ending: can we return to our past in order to create better our future?

Midlife Crisis

He took a look and shrugged. “That’s my name on the bottom, if that’s what you’re getting at. Why do you ask?” He looked at us each in turn. “Do you have some personal stake in this? I mean, it seems it happened quite a long time ago.”


I nodded. “Do you remember the case, sir?”


He blinked a few times and stared up at the ceiling before replying, “Vaguely. I was living up in those parts at the time before I transferred back here, but apart from that, I wasn’t assigned to the case. I was simply the officer who found the body and brought it down to the hospital morgue.”


Ma smiled demurely―or, well, as demure as Ma could get. “It’s just that it looks like she was murdered, but the media reported it a suicide.”


Again he shrugged. “Not unusual, Brenda. Sometimes the press is given false information so as to not tip off the guilty. Maybe the police thought the person who did this would get sloppy if they thought they were off the hook. Maybe they’d show their hand then.”


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