Woman who married herself divorcing after meeting someone else

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A woman who married herself earlier this year is now divorcing herself after meeting someone else. Cris Galera wed herself in September after growing tired of relying on men. However, the Brazilian is now headed for divorce after she met “someone special” and fell in love. “I started to believe in love the moment I met someone else special,” she said.

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  Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.