Johnny Depp’s out of cash and he really has no idea why.
divorce
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Cataloguing the Detritus of Relationships Past
Essayist Leslie Jamison visits Zagreb’s Museum of Broken Relationships.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Breakup Museum: Archiving the Way We Were
Essayist Leslie Jamison visits the Breakup Museum in Zagreb, Croatia — created in 2003 after founders Olinka Vištica and Dražen Grubišić ended their relationship — and considers what stories are told by the objects we shared with former loved ones.
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A Finder, No Longer a Keeper
Jenny Klion tries to make sense of her super power of finding lost jewelry where ever she goes, and reflects on how finding someone else’s engagement ring helped her let go of her own.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
A Finder, No Longer a Keeper
How finding someone else’s engagement ring helped Jenny Klion let go of her own.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction, Unapologetic Women
A Finder, No Longer a Keeper
How finding someone else’s engagement ring helped Jenny Klion let go of her own.
Posted inEditor's Pick
How Coming Out Made Me Whole: High Maintenance’s Katja Blichfeld Tells Her Story
In this as-told-to personal essay, High Maintenance Katja Blichfeld speaks about the vital importance — and difficulty, particularly after being raised evangelical — of coming out as gay this past year, and ending her marriage to her collaborator.
Posted inEssays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Fake It Till You Make It
On the pressure to pretend there’s no fallout after your parents’ divorce.
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Fake This Marriage
As part of The Awl’s excellent “Fakes” series, Kelly Stout chronicles her life as an “ACOD” (adult child of divorce) in the wake of her parents’ 2011 acrimonious split when she was in her early 20s, and tries to make sense of the lie her parents and family are no longer living.
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The Joys and Sorrows of Watching My Own Birth
A personal essay in which Shelby Vittek reflects on the bittersweet experience of watching the video of herself being born — and her now-divorced mom and dad becoming parents — again and again.