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In so many senseless deaths, beauty is to blame.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Already things are changing; it´s starting with small shit but oh it´s starting, the change, the irrevocable, impossible change.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Such silence has an actual sound, the sound of disappearance.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

I was steeped in denial, but my body knew.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

I used to loathe ambivalence; now I adore it. Ambivalence is my new best friend.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Delusion detests focus and romance provides the veil.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

I know one thing about men," Bunny says with finality, leaving the room to check on A. "They never die when you want them to.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

So many events and moments that seemed insignificant add up. I remember how for the last Valentine´s Day, N gave flowers but no card. In restaurants, he looked off into the middle distance while my hand would creep across the table to hold his. He w...

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Any way I slice reality it comes out poorly, and I feel an urge to not exist, something I have never felt before; and now here it comes with conviction, almost panic. I mentally bless and exonerate anyone who has kicked a chair out from beneath her o...

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

The snag about marriage is, it isn´t worth the divorce.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Bushwhacked, I examine my hands. Same hands. Rings still there but no longer valid.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Daily I walk around my small, picturesque town with a thought bubble over my head: Person Going Through A Divorce. When I look at other people, I automatically form thought bubbles over their heads. Happy Couple With Stroller. Innocent Teenage Girl W...

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

They feel life is for the taking, and that everyone deserves happiness no matter what the cost. I must remember these tricks if I ever decide to have my soul surgically removed.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Someday I will have revenge. I know in advance to keep this to myself, and everyone will be happier. I do understand that I am expected to forgive N and his girlfriend in a timely fashion, and move on to a life of vegetarian cooking and difficult yog...

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

Soon he was online every night until one or two a.m. Often he would wake up at three of four a.m. and go back online. He would shut down the computer screen when I walked in. In the past, he used to take the laptop to bed with him and we would both b...

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

I love you as the mother of my child": the kiss of death. Mother of His Child: demotion. I am beginning to see this truism: Mothers are not always wives. I have been stripped of a piece of self.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce

I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: "Oh My God Oh My God.

Split: A Memoir of Divorce