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"All right, rather than beat around the bush, I&amp;#039;m just going to come out and say it \u2013 last month, I was dumped. Dumped. It&amp;#039;s such a harsh word, but it seems fitting. When you&amp;#039;ve been in a relationship for a year and a half and your boyfriend suddenly tells you that things aren&amp;#039;t the same, and he wants to &amp;quot;take a break,&amp;quot; it certainly feels like a weight of sadness and regret has been &amp;quot;dumped&amp;quot; upon your heart. Over the past month, I&amp;#039;ve been somewhat in denial about the break-up. This is partially because of the &amp;quot;taking a break&amp;quot; status he and I agreed on. Too bad we didn&amp;#039;t clarify exactly what that meant. To me, it meant spending winter break a part in order to give each other space, but knowing that when we returned to school in January, there would be a good chance of us getting back together. I was wrong. To him, it means we&amp;#039;re broken up and maybe someday later in life, we&amp;#039;ll get back together. Maybe.  And now, it&amp;#039;s time for me to move on. I&amp;#039;ve been in relationships before, but I&amp;#039;ve never had such a hard time letting go.  For now, my plan is to focus on my New Year&amp;#039;s resolutions (I&amp;#039;ve already had to amend one of them!) and spend time reconnecting with myself. Letting go is definitely going to be tough, but I know I won&amp;#039;t get anywhere if I continue to dwell on what could have been.  How do you deal with a break-up?  Until Next Time, Kaitlyn "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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