Tag: May-December romance
Reevaluating a Controversial Love Story: Teen’s Relationship with Older Man scrutinized
Jill Ciment, a successful novelist, had a controversial love story that she shared in her 1996 memoir "Half a Life." She described her teenage affair with Arnold Mesches, a 47-year-old painter whom she eventually...
Title: Woman Questions Relationship with Much Older Man at 17
In 1970, a rebellious teenager named Jill Ciment shocked everyone by falling in love with a 47-year-old painter named Arnold Mesches, whom she admired. She signed up for his art classes and one night,...