• Single and child-free, Fiona Govan set out to celebrate her 50th birthday with an adventure. • She wanted to travel to Greece, get into shape, and take on a challenge. • She booked a swimming trip with two other childless friends, and together they found their tribe.

We swam around a rugged stretch of coastline and beneath an arch sculpted by centuries of waves. On this unusually calm day, the sea was so clear it was easy to spot red starfish clinging to the rocks and black sea urchins just below the surface, their spikes ready to pierce any careless limb.

We were three single women, ripe with middle age, setting out to prove the years hadn't dulled our sense of adventure. Without the responsibilities of motherhood, we wanted to see if the world still felt wide open.

That was the

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