Posted AT 9:52 AM EST on 28/12/07
Merry Ex-mas
Following separation from her husband, Karen Stewart had another challenge to face: spending her first Christmas Day without her three young children. She and her ex had decided on a plan of alternating years for spending the big day with the children, then 8, 6 and 1.
“There was a lot of crying that day,” she recalls.
For the freshly divorced, the Happy Holiday salutation at this time of year is a painful oxymoron.
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