I divorced my husband - and he took all our friends with him. I thought we had a bond but I was totally shunned. This is what it's like: KATE WILLS
The hurt was all the sharper because I had no idea why Laura* did it. I had long regarded her as one of my best friends, our bond built on a shared love of the Kardashians and Victorian literature.
We were extremely close, or so I thought – I was godmother to her two children, one of only three guests at her wedding – and yet, bumping into her at a mutual friend's art exhibition several months ago, she dismissed me as nothing more than an old distant acquaintance.
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