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'When Will My Terrible Ex Apologize?'

Stop fixating on the impossible and find beauty in what's real instead.

Heather Havrilesky
Sep 15, 2021
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The Black Place (1943) by Georgia O’Keeffe

Hi Polly!

I've enjoyed your advice column for years, and your book has given me a lot of solace (and a few tears) especially over the past year while parsing my divorce. Guess what I'm about to ask you about?

When my ex and I married, we were deeply in love. He was The One, full stop. There didn't seem to be an up…

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