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Oh, Liz. I'm 7 months into getting a divorce. Your story resonates with me strongly. I put a shelf on the wall and filled it with trinkets from my travels, memories of a life that I am now reclaiming. Statues and candles now adorn my apartment after being liberated from their prison cells deep in the closets. Hope has returned to my life as I reclaim my living space and mark it as my own.

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Hi Peter! I love to hear it, this rings so true. The first thing I did too was fill my shelves with old trinkets that had been stashed away and banished from view. So happy to hear hope is returning!

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Oh gosh, I loved this. “It felt fitting, like nature reclaiming a ruined city.” I too once had a sofa like that, one that had to be left behind to make room for the life I needed to leave. You were and are brave to wield a chainsaw against the things you loved, that nevertheless needed to go. May we all be so brave.

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“The things you loved that nevertheless needed to go.” Nailed it. You always have the best comments :)

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Chainsaw! How badass!

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Hahah to be clear, I hired men with saws. But it was satisfying even secondhand.

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Ohhh I LOVE your space! The gem tones you've selected are gorgeous! That couch is sublime.

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Thank you!

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Your writing is on fire in this post! By the time you got to the chainsaw, I was reading-laughing through tears. Love the new rooms!! :-)

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Hahaha! I am really enjoying how much people are enjoying the chainsaw! :)

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A few thoughts: 1) Your writing is superb, as always; 2) I remember the post-divorce museum days; 3) it takes some real cojones to chainsaw a perfectly good couch inside your living room.

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Thank you! I was picking splinters out of the white carpets for months. 🤦‍♀️ I eventually gave up and just gave them away too hahaha.

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Letting it all go! I love it!

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Love being part of your vibrant, colorful, art-filled life!

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❤️❤️ the couch is ready for you!

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