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Divorce Lice

My soon-to-be-ex-husband just texted me from an airport 400 miles away. I was expecting to hear from him. He was about to put our 12-year-old daughter on a plane to fly to me for two weeks vacation at the beach. In fact, I was grabbing my car keys to leave for the airport to collect her at the gate. I stopped when the text popped up. My first thought: maybe the flight was delayed. Or …

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What Are The Odds?

Im not what youd call a betting woman, but even I understand odds. Take a girl raised by a single dad. That girls mom struggles with addiction and is in and out of her life. That girl gets pregnant at a young age and the father of her child dies, leaving her on her own, surviving with government assistance. Even I know the odds are stacked against that girl. And yet Possibility …