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Eventually, Annie chipped through the edge of awkwardness that squeezed them all and said, “I’d rather be telling you I’m dying of cancer than telling you your dad and I are splitting up – but we are.  We’re getting a divorce.”  It was a typically convoluted stacking of emotional phrases from their mother’s mouth, and both Jake and Carly sat stunned and silent while they processed “dying of cancer” in the same sentence with “divorce”.