Reflections on Identity

Mourning the Partnership I Never Had

How a simple gesture reminded me of what I had wanted

Laura Friedman Williams
5 min readJul 11, 2021

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Xavier Mouton Photographie

On the beach today, I watched a little boy toddle back to his father, holding his mother’s hand. His face was mottled with artificially bright colors, courtesy of an ice pop that likely started dripping the moment it was released from its…

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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.