Writing about hiring an escort for her seventieth birthday became a catalyst for the wider conversations Gail had long supported in others — around ageing, intimacy, and desire. The unexpected traction of Gail’s article revealed something larger: a hunger for honest conversations about ageing, desire, and the right to ask for what we want. It also marked a moment of finding her own voice — a reminder that new possibilities in both body and mind can open when we step beyond familiar stories and the roles that once defined us