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Change or Transition?

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She’s fine,” said my husband’s voice on my cell phone as soon as the line engaged. She was our five-year-old kindergartner at the time. “What do you mean, she’s fine?” I responded on the edge of panic.

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  1. William Bridges, Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes, 2nd ed. (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2004).

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Rossetti, L. (2015). Change or Transition?. In: Women and Transition. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-47655-5_1

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