Part 3 - After the divorce

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After the divorce, selling the house and with my kids having turned against me, I decided to move to Arizona. I had my mom and a girlfriend who lived in the Phoenix area. I got a good job, rented an apartment and started to learn who I really was inside and out. I started the healing process, started to grow and found out I had a good work ethic. I was finally starting to relax, making new friends, having fun and started looking into getting my Bachelor's degree from the University of Phoenix. This helped me to discover that I was not dumb and stupid. I am so proud of earning that degree at age 50, because it represented and validated that I did have a good mind. To me it is more than just a degree. It represents that I am still growing, learning and loving it.

I finally made up my mind to stop beating myself up, blaming myself for everything and started to "wash that man right out of my hair." I wanted to be a very strong, independent woman. I wanted to heal, find out who I was and how strong I became. You will see by my poetry how I started to grow. (continued)

Gloria Hildreth
"Reflections: A Moment in Time"
copyright 2009