It Took Divorce to Make My Marriage Equal
glamour.com · 6 minI spent 12 years fighting for an equal partnership, when what I needed was a divorce.
I spent 12 years fighting for an equal partnership, when what I needed was a divorce.
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It’s actually a big developmental milestone.
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He had been in Los Angeles for a month, but he said he hadn’t seen much. The ocean, a couple of record stores and the stretch of concrete he hiked to get to the library where I happened to work. I lent him my copy of “The Day of the Locust” and offered to show him around. I was almost 37.
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As authorities in suburban Milwaukee gamed out the complex preparations to allow children back into classrooms amid the coronavirus pandemic, they didn’t plan for one scenario: Parents deliberately sending infected kids to school.
Cue soft piano music played in a minor chord. Ordinary members of the public and NHS workers relating the hardships they have faced over the past few months. Keir standing next to a war memorial, declaring his love and pride in the UK.
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