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“There was no social ritual to indicate that I had undergone a major life event. No forty days of rest as after childbirth, no forty days of mourning after death. There was no symbolic act of closure. Like the divorce, the absence of closure would be a unique cross for me to bear.”

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Book:Rewriting My Happily Ever After: A Memoir of Divorce and Discovery

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