One Person’s Great Escape is Another’s Hell

Amber Fraley
Aug 31, 2018 · 5 min read

My parents divorced when I was eight and my brother was five.

“Oh, so you don’t remember the divorce very much,” someone said to me once. Are you kidding? I thought.

I remember everything.

The divorce was definitely my mother’s Great Escape. She moved us in with her parents in another city so she could have her breakdown in peace.

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