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    “i’m exhausted. i don’t know where the last few years have gone. my kids are my entire life and they’re all having a hard time, but in different ways, and i’m trying to help them but i feel like i’m failing them anyway because i’m barely at home anymore. i can’t divide my attention between them the way i could when i wasn’t working, because now i work every spare shift i can pick up. i do it so i can make sure they won’t go hungry because their dad couldn’t give them the same consideration and i—,” beth stops herself, stutters out a breath, finishes, “—i’m just… suspended in time, waiting for it to get easier. and i stay up all night sometimes because i can’t stop thinking that maybe it won’t.”

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    or: beth is separated from dean, going through a messy divorce, and quickly nearing the end of her rope. when annie suggests beth attend a single parent support group at the local rec center, beth takes her sister’s advice.

     

    she ends up meeting rio.

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