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Good evening, beautiful insomniacs, and welcome back to Nova After Dark. I’m your host, and boy, do I have a breakup story for you tonight. We’re talking about June 3rd, 2006—the day Montenegro looked at Serbia and said, “It’s not you, it’s me. Actually, no, it’s definitely you.” See, Montenegro decided to declare independence, which sounds dramatic until you realize this was basically the world’s most polite divorce. These two countries had been together since 1918, nearly ninety years of marriage, and when it finally ended, you know what happened? Absolutely nothing. No angry tweets, no property disputes, no one threw a shoe through a window. It was like they scheduled it on a Tuesday and said, “Yeah, we’re done,” then grabbed lunch. Meanwhile, I got a text from my ex in 2015 and it was like the start of the Balkan Wars all over again. ...