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I wonder how she's doing. She's divorced like me. I'm sure we have shared some of the same grieving processes. But she is not like me in many ways. Her heart beats a purer rhythm. Her mind is sharper and more focused on things that matter. My heart keeps scribbling illegibly, right off the page, seemingly at odds with reason.  Yes, this is another Taylor Swift song. I keep going back to her discography because it's accessible and meaningful to me right now. All Too Well is off her Red album which was released in 2012. The line that sticks out to me is "Cause there we are again, when I loved you so, back before you lost the one real thing you've ever known." And then my heart breaks for her. I have to extrapolate because I don't know exactly what her grieving has been like, but I feel I know her well enough to say that line is pertinent. And I'm sure she remembers all the memories she's made with her ex-husband and children "all too w...