He turned ex's wedding dress into book successOct-20-2011
Divorces. Separations. Breakups. Ignominious endings. They happen to the best of us, and they're often messy, confusing and searingly painful.
There's no shortage of self-help books for people mired in the throes of a breakup - and yeah, sure, they're helpful. But Kevin Cotter, the guy who gave the world the website MyExWifesWeddingDress.com, refined the formula, combining his raw emotion with comedy and joining the ranks of bloggers-turned-authors with his new book, "101 Uses for My Ex-Wife's Wedding Dress," out next week.
"I think it turned out really good - even better than I had imagined it," said Cotter, 38, of Tucson, Ariz. "I honestly still can't believe any of this happened."
Cotter was an unassuming box salesman and outdoors enthusiast when his wife of 12 years left him over Fourth of July weekend in 2009. They had been together since high school - more than half his lifetime - and they had two children together. He found himself single for the first time in his adult life, and he was devastated. (He has since recovered, even remarrying last June.)
When she walked away, Cotter's ex-wife left her wedding dress behind in its preservation box and told him to do whatever he wanted with it. The keepsake box seemed to jeer at him from a shelf in his bedroom closet - until the day Cotter and his family members started to brainstorm. What could he actually do with that wedding dress?
Many things, it turns out. Many, many things.
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