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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.

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Divorce is my generation’s coming of age ceremony – a ritual scarring that makes anything that happens afterward seem bearable.
ERICA JONG

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