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John Carter's avatar

This was both heartwrenching, pointed, and true. You're describing things that have touched all of our lives with incredible poignancy. My own family has the same fractured, multi-parental structure, poisoned by hurt and resentment as a result of the fashionable divorce epidemic. Thankfully no one was lost to drugs ... but damage was done in other ways.

It's one thing to examine these issues at the level of bloodless abstraction, another to inhabit them in their full, messy human detail, and another still to bridge the gap between those modes, which is what you're doing very well.

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Grant Smith's avatar

Well, now I gotta go back and read all the parts. Hope everything is going well now with the wife. Sometimes we need to learn things the hard way. Nothing is better than having people in your life who allow you to do that and stick with you.

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