I Blew up My Life

And people had a lot to say about it

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My friend pops into the restaurant and scoots up a chair. We order a drink and begin to chat. I’m blissfully sipping my pinot, oblivious to the incoming emotional explosive. Boom. She hurls an insult. It’s the infancy of my divorce, and you know newborns, we’re fragile.