"What I mean is that she was hiding all of these facets of herself from me, and I was never wiser to her deceptions, because the parts that she showed me were the parts that I wanted to see. As much my fault as hers, because I took it all: hook, line, and sinker."

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 "Why would she do that?"

"Some people just do things like that. I thought about it a lot during the course of months and months of drunken debate with myself, and I never could really come up with an answer that satisfied me beyond that some people are good, and some people are evil, and that was simply the way things had to be.

"Things like that will really get to you if you dwell on them too long. Things like that, the things you can't answer, those are the kind of things that ate me alive, that destroyed me the most, and that's why I don't really like talking about any of it."

"Opening old wounds?"

"Who knows? I keep it all pent up inside, that way it doesn't spread to anyone else, at least. I lost a lot of friends in those days."