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The Art of Nothingness

My friend is freshly divorced. Mia is young and beautiful, and the wedding was a lavish celebration of their love. The marriage itself was quite short. Unsurprisingly, she is a little disillusioned. "People keep telling me it's okay, it doesn't matter," she said to me. "But if it doesn't matter, then why did we do it in the first place?" Her life otherwise is going well. Career-wise she's had a great recent success. Yet she feels removed from the achievement. She is pleased, but not exuberant, as she might have expected to be. The peaks and troughs of her emotions, she explains, the highs and

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