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My mother, finally, at her wits' end, grabbed Aunt Martie by the shoulders, shook her violently, and said, "The sexual revolution didn't happen so you could sit by the phone sobbing like some stupid little girl. But I remember once as a teenager watching my mother nurse Aunt Martie after a particularly brutal breakup. I was too private to share my youthful heartbreak publicly. To be honest, my mother never had to have this talk with me. Or you can just let it go and look at the person in the rearview mirror and keep driving. And you could sit around like a fool letting someone else hold court in your mind when you were hardly a blip on his radar. You can spend hours speculating on a man's motivations, trying to pinpoint what clue you missed, what missteps you made, when the relationship turned, or why he didn't like you as much as you thought he did. “No man or woman likes to be a fool, but here's the thing my mother taught me long ago, and it is a lesson that stuck.
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