What My Cat Taught Me About Bouncing Back

dc.contributor.authorDelury, Jane
dc.date.accessioned2017-10-11T15:35:15Z
dc.date.available2017-10-11T15:35:15Z
dc.date.issued2016-06
dc.description.abstractLess than an hour after my ex-husband and I told our two daughters that we were separating, I had promised my then seven-year-old that I would get them a pet. "How about that?" I said into the backseat of the car, where she was crying with her head on her older sister's arm. I was taking them for ice cream, and also trying to get out of the house that no longer felt like mine. The crying stopped. My daughter's face stilled. The three of us started to talk about dogs versus cats, rabbits versus hamsters. Thank God, I thought. I'd come up with a pleasing idea to follow the announcement of a terrible truth. I was the Girl Scout of divorce, marching everyone along a new trail to the future. I know those woods ahead look scary, I was, in effect, saying, but we will find wildflowers and berries! You will have two houses, I'd declared to the girls earlier, but those two houses will make one home. In my half of the home, which I was already imagining, the three of us would watch BBC shows, grow a vegetable garden with a lot of mint and—it had been decided by the time we reached the ice-cream shop—have a cat.en_US
dc.description.urihttp://www.oprah.com/creaturecomfort/what-my-cat-taught-me-about-bouncing-backen_US
dc.format.extent3 pagesen_US
dc.genreessaysen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/M26D5PC4P
dc.identifier.citationDelury, J. (2016). What My Cat Taught Me About Bouncing Back. Harpo Productions, 1-3.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/7297
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherHarpo Productionsen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Baltimore
dc.subjectcreative writingen_US
dc.subjectfictionen_US
dc.subjectcreative fictionen_US
dc.subjectessayen_US
dc.subjectdealing with divorceen_US
dc.subjectsingle parenten_US
dc.titleWhat My Cat Taught Me About Bouncing Backen_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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