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There comes a point when words run out, and the silence between two people speaks louder than anything left unsaid. On September 16, 2025, Ronald C. Wagoner filed his petition for dissolution of marriage against Ngan D. Wagoner in the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis. He did so through his attorney, Joseph A. Specter of Specter Law Firm, marking the formal close to a union that began in Clark County, Nevada, on January 22, 2021.
Ronald now lives halfway across the world, in Meruyung, Indonesia. Ngan remains in Missouri, working at Washington University. Their lives, stretched by distance and years, have not held together. They separated on July 1, 2025. No children tie them to the past, and neither seeks maintenance from the other. Both are capable of standing on their own.
The petition carries the simple but final statement that the marriage is irretrievably broken. What remains are the ordinary matters of division—property to be fairly set apart, debts to be divided with balance, and each person’s separate holdings left intact. No accusations hang in the air. No cruelty is claimed. Just the recognition that what once began with vows has turned into a parting.
For Ronald, for Ngan, this filing becomes the last page of a short marriage. The court is asked to draw the boundary lines cleanly and let each walk away with what belongs to them. In the end, it is not anger that defines the story, but the acknowledgment of distance too wide to close.
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