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Sitting in the Library

I hate this.  I'm sitting in the library watching the seconds tick away.  I'm supposed to be writing a chapter for my book about my ex-husband.  Groan. I am writing the chapter that introduces him as a person - before things were terrible.  Before he left.  When I was really happy.  And that's some of my problem - I was never truly UN-happy.  At least I didn't think I was unhappy.  Maybe I was too sick to pay attention to my marriage, but I didn't think it was so bad until Dan announced he was leaving me.  In retrospect, of course, there were things that were terrible, and I'm doing much better now.  I think sometimes I'm still stunned that all this happened, that this is my life.  Today I ran up the stairs and thought, "Shit.  I have different lungs in me."  Sometimes, I almost forget.  Today my writing coach said to me, "W ell, cripes. You just had your lungs torn out. Then your heart was torn out as w...