I am trying to remove single newlines but not double newlines.

for instance say I have the following:
Name:\nMy Name\n\nAddress:\n123 Anywhere St\n\nAbout Me:\nSome text
that\nhas some newlines that\nI want to be rid of\n\nThe End\n

I want to get rid of all of the newlines between Me:\n and the next
occurrence of \n\n. and replace them with spaces so it says:
Name:\nMy Name\n\nAddress:\n123 Anywhere St\n\nAbout Me:\nSome text
that has some newlines that I want to be rid of\n\nThe End\n

I'm completely at a loss on how to pull this off...

sub fixer($){
    my $data = $_[0];
    $data =~ s/\\n{1}/ /g; #this is too greedy
    print $data;
}


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