slaveish
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ORIGINAL: velvetpetal What was so wrong about me, that a man had to PRETEND to be dead, to get rid of me. Those things hurt with very real pain, despite the relationship being "online" and thus deemed "unreal" by so many that judge around here. Omg, I just have to tell ~this~ story, since this thread is like Frakenstein's way funky monster already. I had a good friend in RT. He was a ladykiller, and although I was somewhat interested in him I didn't really follow through on anything. He was an ~excellent~ pianist, a marine biologist, had a ton of stuff going for him. He was handsome, fun, funny, smart. ANYWAY Several years ago he called and said he had non-Hodgkins lymphoma and the doctors had given him, at the outside (barring a miracle) a year. I was devastated. I'd known this guy for a long time. I'd call him every so often just to hear his voice and to find out how he was doing. He moved to another state, changed his cell number, and called me now and then. Well ... two years later, he was still alive. Three years, four years. But each time I talked to him, he cried about dying and complained about treatments, and said he really thought he was about to die. No. For ~real~ this time. Really. No, really. Really. Truly. Finally, someone called to say he'd died. I was surprised because I really thought he'd been faking it ... well ... after awhile, I mean. His stories about his treatment and what the doctors were saying just didn't make sense. And he'd been alive way too long. (Take that statement as you will.) I felt very bad for doubting him and I felt awful about his death. A couple months later I got a call from his cell phone. It was shocking to see the number. I answered the phone, thinking it might be his son or a friend, but it was ~HIM~ - he thought he was calling some new girlfriend in the area, but he'd been so used to calling me (same area code) I guess he dialed my number instead. And he forgot he was dead. Imagine his embarrassment. Loser.
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You only lose what you cling to. ~~Gautama Sidharta If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other. ~~Mother Teresa
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