Still Us, Just Different
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MatureOngoing4h 7m
Last published Tue, Jul 14, 2026
They broke up.
They moved on.
They built separate lives.
So why does it still feel like nothing is over?
Tim Bradford and Lucy Chen are doing their best to co-parent their daughter while keeping their distance-but distance is hard when history, tension, and feelings refuse to stay in the past.
The problem isn't that they don't work anymore.
It's that they might still do.
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