Fairfax: cancer survivor; friend of Nancy Plumb; married to Mike

Nancy: meeting planner; single friend of Fairfax; daughter of Ruth Plumb (deceased)

Mike:  Fairfax’s husband; insurance company executive

Max: Mike’s artist brother who has a crush on Nancy

Lucinda: Cuban-American mother of Mike and Max; lives in Miami

Will: oldest son of Fairfax and Mike; attends the University of Florida

Jack: youngest son of Fairfax and Mike; matriculates to Davidson College

Peter Redmond: hematologist doctor and friend of Fairfax and Nancy

Henry:  Nancy’s retired father who lives in Vilano Beach

Blanche: Henry’s girlfriend

Adam Ainsley: Nancy’s crush from high school; the one who got away

Angela: teacher and neighborhood friend of Nancy and Fairfax; married to Nate, mother of Evan

Nate: Angela’s psychotherapist husband

Beth Anne: friend of Nancy and Fairfax from high school; married with five young children

Janey: neighborhood friend

Rod Capper: Nancy’s boss at the North Florida Medical Society

Martha: Nancy’s former co-worker at the North Florida Medical Society

Ruth Plumb: Nancy’s mother, Henry’s wife; died in 2014

Genevieve Fitch: Fairfax’s mother who died in 1986