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‘Sex and the City’ Author Regrets Not Having Kids: I Felt ‘Truly Alone’

Paul Bois

An author who helped usher in a new era of sexual liberation admits that not building a family made her feel “truly alone.”

Candace Bushnell’s novel, “Sex and the City,” helped spawn the wildly popular HBO series of the same name, in which a group of affluent Manhattan women experience the joys and pratfalls of sexual independence. Speaking with the Sunday Times, however, Bushnell said she regrets not having children prior to her divorce in 2012.

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