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"I was talking with my neighbor over the weekend, and she asked me how it&amp;#039;s going. &amp;quot;Oh, it&amp;#039;s going\u2026.&amp;quot; I replied. Some days are good, some days are bad. The important thing is its going. Passing. Moving along. Like a kidney stone it passes, somedays, but it&amp;#039;s passing. She smiled and said &amp;quot;Well, at least you&amp;#039;re mostly out of the crazy phase now.&amp;quot; Oh, sister, do I know it! She laughed as she remembered the disastrous end of her first marriage. She remembers eating too much cheesecake \u2013 an entire one in a day, as a matter of fact. One time, she braided all the fringe on her living room lampshades, and painted her toes all different colors. Then she went to France, and didn&amp;#039;t come back for a year. &amp;quot;I was absolutely nuts,&amp;quot; she laughed. &amp;quot;But that&amp;#039;s what divorce does to you.&amp;quot; I told her about the time I was baking my third batch of muffins in a day for no one but me, and found a pair of my bike shorts in the kitchen drawer with the potholders. I have no idea how they got there. The first time I mowed the lawn by myself, I was talking to myself the whole time, venting about Peter. I ended up mowing in bizarre little roundabouts \u2013 it looked like alien crop circles all over my lawn. I once went a whole day and a half without eating a thing, but I chewed seven packs of Wrigleys&amp;#039;s Spearmint Gum. The crazies are a lot farther apart now, and nothing like those early days after Peter moved out (thank goodness!). I think it was a self-defense mechanism in my brain. I expended so much energy keeping it together for the kids, that when they were at their Dad&amp;#039;s and I was left to my own devices, things got a little skewed. It&amp;#039;s all part of the process, I guess. How about you? What crazy stuff did Divorce do to your brain? Please tell me I&amp;#039;m not the only one who went nuts for awhile! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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