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This article just tore my heart out.

By Pam Pardy Ghent
For The Independent
My husband of 16 years is leaving me
this week, but he’s too busy to talk
about it. He is cleaning the fish tank,
shearing the spaniel, gutting out the basement,
cleaning the windows and fixing everything
that is or may ever possibly break.
He isn’t saying goodbye to anyone in our
tiny outport home. He will simply toss his stuff
in the car and leave. He will visit his parents for
a night, and take our nine-year-old son out of
school. Then the three of us will drive silently
to St. John’s. Two sleeps later I will leave him
alone at the airport in the early morning hours
and drive away.
My husband is going to work in Fort
McMurray. We don’t know how long he will be
gone, because he doesn’t have a job yet. We
don’t know where he will stay, though he does
know people up there. I try not to think about it
too much.
He spent the last year in school and has
earned a pretty title. He is now an industrial
instrumentation mechanic. All that means to
me is that he gets to go and do God knows what
and earn who the hell knows how much.

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