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- 1Five Very Gen X Things That Helped One Writer Through Divorce●5 Very Gen X Things That Got Me Through My Divorce
A personal essay making the rounds lists five Generation X touchstones that one writer says carried her through her divorce. The piece leans on the generational shorthand of latchkey-kid resilience, cynicism and self-reliance, and readers are sharing it as both a divorce story and a nostalgic nod to coming of age in the 1980s and 1990s.