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10:28pm JST Monday 22 February 2010 (day 14579)

No I-group tonight. Too busy at work.

sally

11:46am JST Saturday 27 February 2010 (day 14584)

I'm writing this after the fact, but I think Monda 22 Feb was the day I heard from Sally who said her husband had walked out on her 2 weeks before. I was like, "Doood!" and expressed several other expressions of shock, cause, dude! I chatted with her on Skype for a while and discerned that she's much better composed than I guessed she would be. When I heard she had gone ahead and done the trip they had planned for their first year anniversary, but did it alone, in an area remote enough that there was no cellular coverage, for a week, I thought wowwwwwww; that was probably the awesomest thing she could have done for herself. Good onya mate!

She's looking carefully at the whole situation: the difficulty of them being newlyweds, in a new country, removed from family, and having just moved within the previous month... wow tough stuff. They had each gone to counseling, but not marriage counseling, though they had made an appointment just before he left. She went to the appointment alone. Good onya mate! So I'm glad she's staying sane despite the changes around her. Sally is such an awesome friend and awesome human. I know she will come out of this with shining colors.