How to Survive a Breakup

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Lisa Cleary. How to Survive a Breakup

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“Uplifting, inspiring, and hilarious… Mix in a sprinkle of heartbreak and a whole lot of wisdom, and you have How to Survive a Breakup. Lisa Cleary is an exciting new voice well worth listening to.”

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During the course of the next year, as I adjusted to a new apartment and a new job, I felt very alone. I had never lived alone, and so moving into unfamiliar surroundings, by myself, was frightening and I became depressed. No one prepares you for what it feels like to move out of a very luxe rented apartment, afforded by two salaries, to the cheapest unit in the basement of a complex that’s thirty miles outside of the city.

And so, I barely cried, and I mostly mulled. The holidays were anxious times for me, with the early darkness of late fall and winter particularly tough. At the New Year, I congratulated a burst of friends on their engagements, some of whom I thought would never settle down, and some of whom had moved past their first marriage and were now planning for their second. Come Valentine’s Day, I ordered cheesy breadsticks and broccoli bites and watched Gone Girl. And, as a new spring approached, I realized that I was really alone.

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