I Will Survive

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This move back home represented for me another punch and I was reeling with it to the other side of the ring and the other side of the world. It felt like I kept bouncing off the boxing ring ropes. Boing! Boing! I was amazed that I could still feel something after all the punches I was the recipient of. I wished I were numb but I wasn’t. You feel each blow and that is what divorce is. Blow after blow and you being bounced off the sides of the ring in the craziest scheme of things. Total loss of control as your body is flung to all sides like a rag doll. They packed. We smoked. I cried. A Divorcee Divorce is real self-discovery. Isn’t it funny that all the letters of the word Divorce can be found in the word Discovery? Divorce is the catalyst for self-discovery: if life were logical, it would start with a divorce. Divorce is about Separation and Life is a series of successive separations that make up this story, as all of our stories. In my story, the accent may be on divorce, but we can also realize, that in life we all lead divorces. Divorce from a country of origin, a job, living with parents and then with children, our culture, our language, our youth...

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