The One Thing About My Divorce That I’ll Never Get Over

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I have always wanted to be a mother. I’m a nurturer. As a little girl I adopted everything from turtles, stray cats and dogs, to salamanders that I rescued from becoming fish bait and kept them in Country Crock butter bowls. I would take care to try to build them the perfect environment-with moss and rocks and I’d talk to them. I loved baby dolls and a stuffed panda named “Pandy” (I know, so…