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Divorce: The Ultimate Skincare Routine (and Some Tips for Getting Through It)

Divorce: The Ultimate Skincare Routine (and Some Tips for Getting Through It), by Dawn Dais. Photograph of woman's face by Kamila Maciejewska.
Photograph by Kamila Maciejewska

Estimated reading time: 6 minutes

They say a picture is worth a thousand words; in my case, a photo revealed more than I could ever say about my wellbeing before divorce…and after

I was going through old pictures recently and came across a photo I took in December of 2019. I had taken the photo as a “before” because I was going to start using some fancy new face cream that was sure to change my entire life and also my face. I wanted to have photographic proof of the transformation.

When I came across the photo I audibly gasped. I

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