The Bachelorette. Kate Little

was no lotion or cosmetic in the world that could improve a woman’s looks as much as falling in love.

      But all that ended just at the time she graduated college. That was when Jake abruptly returned to New York, leaving her a cool, terse note, despite the fact he had promised more than once to take her with him and introduce her to his well-known circle. Why had he treated her so badly? Meredith knew she’d never fully understand it. All she knew was that, along with losing Jake, she’d lost her special glow. She’d returned home to Chicago defeated and depressed, and reverted to her old dowdy ways of dressing, as if to avoid male attention all together.