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How Random Life Can Be: 10 Years Ago Tonight Was My Rehearsal Dinner With My Ex

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4 min readMar 15, 2023

I just realized this one walking my dog. 10 years ago tomorrow, I got married. I’m no longer with that person, and haven’t been since March of 2017. (So, if you’re doing math, we lasted about four years married.) I don’t want to belabor the “this could have been my 10th anniversary” posts tomorrow, because I’ve already written a bunch of stuff about divorce over time. Here’s one or two:

Five years since I got divorced

I speak to no one in the above picture anymore. For years, they were some of my closer friends, especially 3–4 of the…

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We never discuss this, but the thing is, you also divorce the friends

Let’s start with a caveat: in no way I am still distraught over being divorced in March 2017, or really anything even…

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Wow, guess I used the same image for both those posts. Cool.

Well, 10 years ago tonight was the rehearsal dinner for that wedding, which I believe was at some “yacht club” (bougie) in Key Biscayne / Miami area, where the wedding was. When I got married a second time (October 2020), basically no one I knew came because of COVID…