LAUGHING MATTERS

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Welcome to LAUGHING MATTERS! A world of mid-life musings based on the questionable choices Iโ€™ve made in my own life.

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About Lisa St. Lou

I'm Lisa, 49, at the "gives no fucks" part of my life. I write about health & wellness over 45, ex-pat life in France, and my self-help memoir about being married to (and divorced from) a megalomaniacal narcissist. But it's funny.

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