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buzzycrumbhunger

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86. I'm in Floriduh

Fri Jul 3, 2026, 09:50 PM

Jul 3

… he buggered off to Iowa.

Who knows at this point. Daughter is pissed because she tracked him down and he’s bought a house listed on Zillow at $400K, and because he left me with a termite-ridden house and then failed to provide alimony, I lost it and we’ve been hanging on by the skin of our teeth since.

And he’s on wifey #3 now, and has become a holy roller on top of this, which just adds to the irony. What does his Jeebus teach about stiffing your wife on alimony, I wonder…

I dodged a bullet in the ways that matter but man, life shouldn’t be this hard. Guess I should’ve gotten busy to find a replacement in these last 23 years, but my self esteem just took too big a hit to have the nerve to go looking for a proper man. Let me be a cautionary tale, I guess.

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