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Chapter 12: Custody, and Other Words

4 min read · 980 words

The mediation office had beige carpet and a water cooler that gurgled every few minutes, and Maren sat across a round table from David, their lawyers a respectful distance away, working through the unglamorous architecture of ending a marriage — school pickup schedules, holiday rotations, the house. "I don't want to sell it," David said, when they got to the house, the first real friction point o...

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