He got divorced and shared custody of the boys.

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He got married and divorced, and then had a child with another woman, but that relationship broke up, too.

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In the meantime, he had three kids, got divorced, remarried, divorced again, bought a house, sent a son to college and became a grandfather.

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In a few short years, Gill, the Yale-educated son of the famed New Yorker writer Brendan Gill, closed the consulting business he started after he was laid off, got divorced and was diagnosed with a brain tumor.

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Ryan Nicodemus grew up with divorced, cash-strapped parents, so when he got a telecommunications job in Dayton, Ohio, he made up for lost time.

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