Something You Always Longed For

My parents divorced with I was 9. My father left for another woman. He died 10 years later after divorcing his 4th wife. My mother’s on her 3rd marriage. I have a slew of stepparents, stepsiblings, half siblings, stepcousins and stepuncles that were once family, but now, I don’t know what they are.

And I’ll just say it: My parents had an ugly divorce. It…