Of course, I couldn’t even begin to consider the process of posting about my divorce online until I told people in my tangible life first. Telling my father was a specific nightmare that I’m glad I’ll never have to relive, his ruddy face looking at me perplexed over FaceTime, asking if he should fly to New York to “get me,” whatever that meant. My friends were told through a few well-placed texts to notorious gossips; that would do most of the work for me. Initially I tried to find some fun in the way I told people, like when my friend Sarah chirped me on Valentine’s Day during a podcast
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