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This is NPR's Life Kit. Today, the D word.

Divorce.

So we were just kind of talking and she was like, well, why don't you just stop fighting?

I was like, well, like, what if we lived in two houses, but we didn't fight anymore?

She kind of, like, sat on it for a moment, and then she just started sobbing.

I'm Corey Turner, an education reporter with NPR and the father of two boys.

I'm Anya Kamenetz, an education reporter with NPR and the mother of two girls,

and you're listening to Life Kit for Parents with Sesame Workshop.

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We just heard from Jada. She's a high school science teacher outside San Francisco and the mother of two young girls.

For privacy reasons, we're not going to use their last name. When I interviewed Jada, she and her husband had been divorced about a year and a half. And as we're going to hear, since that split,

they've had a lot of ups and a lot of downs. So this is Sophia, Jada's older daughter, right,

Corey? And you said that she was eight when you first met her. That's right. Let's take a listen. Last year, 2017 was like tragic year.

This year was like getting used to it.

And this is Elizabeth Sophia's little sister.

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