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one mix tape for two broken hearts

48 hours in the life of two mother daughter break-ups (mix tape included)

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Rebecca Woolf
Nov 21, 2022
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It was a Wednesday night and I had just wrapped my post-shower pre-date towel around my hair when I saw the text.

“Mom. We broke up.”

Her cries were audible as I flung open the bathroom door and ran wet-footed down the hall where I found my teenage daughter in fetal position, sobbing beneath a frame of LED lights.

“It’s over,” she gasped between tears. “It’s all over.”

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