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Living With Your Ex

You just can't hit rewind

Connie Oz –

The cubicle jockey job is only a cover. Writer of poems, observations, and short stories.

September 23, 2014

So you’re with someone for years. You sort of planned to get married, but then you didn't. Then you thought you would be the next Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell, but then that didn't happen. Somewhere in the 11 years of togetherness one of us got a case of the seven year itch and the other a case of midlife crisis. It really doesn't . . .