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As Miranda July approached middle age, she felt she was nearing an ominous boundary, as if on the precipice of a dark, unfamiliar room. So she set about turning the lights on.

July, who’s 50, spent about a year speaking to doctors and other women, and more doctors and other women, and looked at her future anew. “The very quality of my thoughts changed,” the author, filmmaker, and artist tells Bustle. “I got excited. Instead of having fleeting thoughts while looking in the mirror again and again, which I’d push away and feel ashamed about, instead I now have this really rich conversation within myself, and with other women, that’s funny and sexual and really daring. It has so much energy in it, and is so different from what was out there, the unwritten emptiness.”