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The lies I used to tell myself - by Cate Hall

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I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger

When I was 31, my husband of four years, who I loved more than my own life, left me completely out of the blue. We’d had an incredible, epic romance — drawn together like magnets, we married on our third date and spent the years that followed burrowing ever closer together. Maybe that was the problem — I can’t say for sure, because I never got a satisfying explanation out of him. One day I was the protagonist of a Princess Bride-worthy love story; 48 hours later, he moved out. From the time we met, I had never contemplated the possibility of living without him, and I didn’t want to. I…

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