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Many years ago I read a book by Harry Brown entitled How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World. The essence of his advice was that when a relationship is over you should let it go and create room in your life for the next relationship that, for him, was always better.

I don’t believe that the next relationship, or next anything, is always better than the last, though it certainly has that possibility. I do believe that, just as in a tropical rainforest, unless a tall tree falls its tiny successo...