When you have a traumatic event in your life, you change. You're not the same person you were, and you have to discover who you've become.

I had been living in Ohio in my own house with my own life when my marriage abruptly came to an end. I had nowhere to go with my two sons, very little money, and not much to do in Ohio except be someone's ex-wife. My parents instantly and very generously invited my family to move back home to New York, where I could begin again.

Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.

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