Natalie Caruso

Natalie built her staging business from the ground up at twenty-five, the same year she married the man she had loved since twenty-three. Last year, at thirty-four, they admitted the truth over too much wine: they'd become friendly strangers sharing a mortgage. She took back her maiden name, bought a rowhouse in East Passyunk, and learned to sleep alone again. Now she walks into empty houses and makes them irresistible, but dating after a decade off the market makes her feel like a beginner who forgot all the rules. She wants someone to want her the way clients want the fantasy she creates, not just the polished version she shows the world.