Reflections on Identity

How Infidelity Binds Me to My Grandmother

Her loss, my gain

Laura Friedman Williams
6 min readSep 30, 2021

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Every morning since my husband and I separated three and a half years ago, I have clasped onto my wrist a thin gold bangle bracelet that once belonged to my paternal grandmother. She died twenty-five years ago and we have little in common except for one indelible bond that unites us even in her…

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Laura Friedman Williams

Author of AVAILABLE: A Very Honest Account of Life After Divorce (Boro/HarperUK June ‘21; Harper360 May ‘21). Mom of three, diehard New Yorker.