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“It was embarrassing to know that everyone in Greenhead was talking about her, but Augusta refused to stay home and hide. She wanted, years from now, for her children to look back and see a mother who had remained stoic in the face of humiliation, like Princess Diana going off and walking in fields of land mines after Charles dumped her for Camilla.”
― Jenny Jackson, The Shampoo Effect

“The fact that he had been with a man felt like an implicit rejection, or a double-layered deceit. He had hidden more than a relationship, but some part of himself. And she had shared everything with him, even the hard and shameful bits.”
― Jenny Jackson, The Shampoo Effect

“It’s sad that in this day and age he didn’t feel comfortable just coming out. But also, how could she have missed it? It was her own husband…”
― Jenny Jackson, The Shampoo Effect

“want you to know how sorry I am that this happened to you.” He asked how I was doing, how the kids were doing. He said, “I don’t understand a man leaving his family like that.”
― Belle Burden, Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage