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Personal Essay on Divorce In reading Judith Wallerstein's essay on div

briefly about "the situation" once. It was during recess, and he was busy kicking away the cracked concrete foundation of the school yard jungle gym. "My parents got divorced then my dad left and then we took my mom's old name," he answered flatly. I wasn't quite sure what a divorce was, but decided against asking.

That was it - except a few months later, when we returned from lunch to find that Mike's desk had been emptied out in our absence. "Mike has moved away," Mrs. Riley explained, before turning to the day's math lesson. "Where?" someone asked, but Mrs. Riley just said, "Who doesn't have their book?" Mike left without saying goodbye so now we, too, moved on.

Jamming a hand into the pocket of my jacket on the walk home that afternoon, I was nearly impaled in the ribs. On the side of the road, I took off my coat and carefully turned out the pocket. Amid assorted Hubba-Bubba and Bazooka-Joe gum wrappers, a whittled-down Garfield pencil worked its way out and landed at my feet...

In the ensuing years when my own family teetered on the brink of collapse on several occasions, I thought about Mike Wilson. A lot. As Dr. Wallerstein predicted, these painful periods took hold and amplified in the dark

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