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Since the Beatles, women and girls have been shamed for what they like, but female fans haven’t let that stop them. In every era, fangirls have found each other and bonded over their interests, getting together in bedrooms — and stadiums — to celebrate the things that make them shriek.

My first Yu-Gi-Oh! meetup seemed doomed to disaster after I unwittingly used an illegal deck against a perfect stranger. Little did I know, friendship and community were in the cards.

A business collapse. A child’s leukemia diagnosis. A realization that life could be different. For three Manitoban women, midlife became the moment to rethink work and to rebuild their careers on their own terms.