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by First Wives World on Sat, 01/03/2009 - 9:34am
By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI Published: January 13, 2008, The New York Times
THEIR ring fingers were empty.
Their wine glasses were full.
Another meeting of First Wives World had come to order.
"We still love men," Debbie Nigro, the moderator, told a group of 10 divorced women gathered around her in a Midtown apartment on Jan. 2.
"Since my own divorce, I always say I like men more on weekends now," Ms. Nigro added. "Well, maybe every other weekend."
Ms. Nigro is a founder and the self-described "Chief Executive Girlfriend" of First Wives World, a support group for women in different phases of life before, during or after divorce.
Women like Annette Montalbano, 49, a mother of five from Merrick, N.Y.
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by First Wives World on Fri, 01/02/2009 - 9:40am
The temperature on "Hot Flashes" is rising.
The fictional blog entries by "Grey's Anatomy" scribe Mimi Schmir for the First Wives World website got a starry showcase on Tuesday night at the home of Ann Blanchard, the former WMA lit agent turned manager at Mosiac Media.
Blanchard co-hosted the reading of passages "Hot Flashes" with her former WMA colleague Cori Wellins, as a warmup for formally pitching the property to prospective TV buyers.
Thesps pitching in for Tuesday's reading were Amy Brenneman, Dana Delany, Natasha Henstridge, Kathryn Morris and KaDee Strickland. "Flashes" revolves around the adventures of Esme, a pre-menopausal mom who's trying to move on with her life after he husband leaves her for -- yep -- a younger woman.
First Wives World is billed as a Web hub for the nation's 30 million divorced women. Company's production arm has a musical bound for the Rialto, "First Wives Club." Blanchard and Wellins are thinking cable for the prospective TV skein.
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