A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you.

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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you.

Margaret Atwood

Surfacing · 1972

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Divorce Broken relationships Relationships Marriage

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1972

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Margaret Atwood

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Atwood, Margaret. Surfacing. McClelland and Stewart, 1972, ch. 5.

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A divorce is like an amputation: you survive but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood

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