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MODERN LOVE ADV23
(NYT10) UNDATED -- March 18, 2008 -- MODERN-LOVE-ADV23 -- A year after my marriage failed, and on the day before my estranged mother would have turned 77, I was flying into San Francisco for work. I had been back to the city many times since my childhood, but never in such a state of grief and confusion. (Illustration by David Chelsea/The New York Times)**ONLY FOR USE WITH STORY BY PETE MACDONALD SLUGGED: MODERN-LOVE. ALL OTHER USE PROHIBITED.