Life Ceremony, by Sayaka Murata, translated by Ginny Tapley Takemori
Second paragraph of third chapter (English version, haven't been able to locate the Japanese original):

Yoshiko had just turned seventy-five. She had never had sex and hadn’t kissed anyone either. She had never even once had intercourse with her older husband, who had died five
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