2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322254#Comment_322254 2012-01-23T01:52:38-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 Horrible Warning Si http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1223

Memories are all that stand between us and Galvani’s frogs. Here is where we burn our anecdotes onto the face of the Interweb and persuade history we’re more than twitching amphibian meat ...

THE RULES:

1. Recount a tale on the below topic. You have 300 words. Anything more than that will be flambéed with the righteous heat of Deletion. Repeat offenders will be banned.

Linking to a longer version of the story, or posting subsequent chapters, or anything which indirectly pushes it past that 300 word limit, will be similarly nuked.

2. Read – and comment on – the other entries, before you post your own. Partly that’s because you’ll look like a plum if your story is a rubbish shadow of someone else’s. Mostly it’s because you’re not an impolite shit, are you?

[3. Additional emphasis: “Topic.” TOP-IC. That means your anecdote should revolve around a specific subject, yes? The one below, in fact. Not just any old tale you care to share. Deviation = maggoty pee-hole disaster.]

THE LEGAL CRAP:

By telling us your story, it’s in the public domain. Don’t get pissy about that.

Right now you’re in a pub, surrounded by writers, artists and socialites. If you recount an interesting tale to entertain and endear yourself to your fellows, you do not get to bitch about it if a twisted version of the same tale shows up 30 years later on the other side of the planet. Stories are contagious. My advice? Be honest. Don’t make shit up. Don’t treat this like a fiction thread. It’s a chance to entertain and move us with your life experience. That’s plenty good enough.

THE TOPIC:

"Worst! Breakup! Ever!"

[Let me repeat, for the sake of the dinlows out there: YOU HAVE 300 WORDS. Lack of net access prevented me from being heavy-handed over the previous thread. No more free passes.]]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322270#Comment_322270 2012-01-23T07:18:45-08:00 2012-01-23T07:18:56-08:00 government spy http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6088

I said, “Pack my bags for me, if you really want me to leave.” She did. She loaded them into the trunk for me, started the car, and waited for me to get in. I did. She drove me ...

She did.

She loaded them into the trunk for me, started the car, and waited for me to get in.

I did.

She drove me several miles out of town, and dropped me at the next nearest city. She didn’t even say “good-bye.”

I did.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322304#Comment_322304 2012-01-23T13:34:13-08:00 2012-01-23T13:40:23-08:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75

Found out that, eight months previous, he had decided to be polyamourous without telling me. Discovered that he had chosen a primary partner that wasn't me (well, duh I didn't know about it), he had ...

And ALL of our mutual friends knew about it and didn't say one word to me or to him in my defense. They actually covered for the fucker and because most of them were fooling around with him anyways, decided not to talk about it with him.

But he told me he still loved me (though nowhere NEAR as much as I had loved him, just so I knew) and was a little surprised when I told him it was over (I figured it was fucking obvious).

So that led to me drinking, listening to sad music and starting a year and a half long process of putting my life back together and becoming the closest thing to me than I've been my whole life. Still have plenty of trust issues from that and as such, have built up some walls.

Bit of an epilogue, he fell MADLY in love with his primary partner, even gone so far as to nearly propose from what I understand, but the primary partner moved on and preferred someone else. The ex is still apparently recovering from that blow and sent me an e-mail last year apologizing. So...I suppose there's some justice in the universe.

Still...what an idiot I was.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322324#Comment_322324 2012-01-23T15:19:44-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155

My first girlfriend was two years older than me. Things were going ok, until I found out she was telling people we were a lot more serious than we were, were planning on getting married, had planned ...

Every three years after she'd find some excuse to get in touch with me. She got knocked up by and married to the next guy she dated after me and, surprise surprise, started having marital issues. She used my naïve "I'll always be here for you" promise that so many well-intentioned young people make to get me to spend the night in a well-lit office (whose windows and door were open to anyone walking by to stifle any shenanigans), talking about her issues. At the end she tried to get me to invite her up to my room. Three years after that, a friend of hers was getting married and she asked if I'd go with her to the wedding as her date. Next time, she emailed to say she was coming through town for a night.

I believe my last email was, "I have no idea of why you are emailing me. I don't think I've been unclear. We dated in high school almost a decade ago. I've grown, changed, been with more people and I have been reasonable when I've explained that I'm not friends with you nor do I want to be. But since that hasn't worked, let me be blunt: Leave me the fuck alone."]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322366#Comment_322366 2012-01-24T00:39:16-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 Lawrence Rider http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10647

I got dumped for sleeping with someone else once. It sounds pretty straight forward, right? Cheating on your partner is pretty much the capital offence when it comes to relationships. I do, however, ...

I had no idea I was cheating.

No, I'm not claiming we were on a break, or that i was so blind drunk that I didn't remember it. It's actually pretty straightforward, in weird way. She had multiple personalities. I slept with one of the other ones. In fairness, they did look remarkably similar.

So I was dumped for cheating on my girlfriend with my girlfriend. Try explaining that to people...]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322429#Comment_322429 2012-01-24T17:02:18-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 Finagle http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=5254

@Lawrence Rider -- I was in a committed relationship with a lesbian Dianic Wiccan for two years. Who continued to identify as a lesbian throughout our relationship. I feel you. However, ...

I was in a committed relationship with a lesbian Dianic Wiccan for two years. Who continued to identify as a lesbian throughout our relationship.

I feel you. However, telling the story usually gets me bought drinks, so it isn't all bad.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322530#Comment_322530 2012-01-25T15:24:04-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2075

Sometimes you can just watch go down the tubes in advance, like spying a car stalled out on train tracks. You're just stuck. I planned a day out and got my bf to go out with me and some family. ...

I planned a day out and got my bf to go out with me and some family. She was around, the ground between the three of us, rocky. She had been an occasional partner to the two of us but stuff had happened and that had fallen off and now we were trying to feel our way back to some kind of normal. She was there when we were going and she came with. It's just the sort of thing that happened. She rides currents into all sorts of interesting places and lives. And that day was a lot of fun. I guess. It's colored by memory. The evening was fun. But through it all, and you just have to take my word for it, I knew where it would end. I couldn't "see" the future, but I knew it consisted of me sleeping alone and them together.

Later on he would tell me it was his frustrated strike at our relationship, he knew it was acting out and inexcusable but it was what was left for him to express. She would say that she hadn't thought about checking on his agreement with me. Later on I would assure her she wasn't crazy, I don't like that word. I was just disappointed. Later still they would both cut off contact with me. Then move in together. Then marry.

I would sink into a depression that lasted well over two years. Two friendships of over ten years each, gone.

There you go, Whitechapel. I don't tell that one to just anyone.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322531#Comment_322531 2012-01-25T15:35:11-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75

Can I just...play some sad-as-fuck-songs-that-got-me-over-it-links? Because that's what I feel like doing with this thread. That and passing along a bottle of rum.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322533#Comment_322533 2012-01-25T15:58:50-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155

@oldhat I keep trying to pass a bottle but the glass just clinks against the monitor screen. 8(

I keep trying to pass a bottle but the glass just clinks against the monitor screen. 8(]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322535#Comment_322535 2012-01-25T16:19:34-08:00 2012-01-25T21:51:03-08:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949

I agree with oldhat.We're all going to have to do some intensive therapy to cope with reliving such trauma.I was trying to think of a breakup that had a bit of humour to it.I suppose i have got a ...

Ah...the humanity!Why,God,why?

@razrangel:I hope your ok after posting your story.It's a painful one is that.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322558#Comment_322558 2012-01-26T00:34:56-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 razrangel http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2075

Rum would be very welcome. It was years ago now and I've gotten plastered enough in the intervening time to drown most of those sorrows. Ah but... "I tried to drown my sorrows but the ...

Fleck - I survived, so not much to worry about there. Help a whole fuckload when I finally figured out how to go from crushed to pissed off. Only took a few years...

Kick it to the ground

(I give up - the video/mp3 button gives me the same exact code as a hyperlink.)]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322559#Comment_322559 2012-01-26T00:57:15-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 Horrible Warning Si http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1223

Fair points, all. Anyone wanting to pepper their WORST! BREAKUP! EVER! story with a little bit of BUT! I'M OKAY! NOW! would not go amiss.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322562#Comment_322562 2012-01-26T02:29:39-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 Fauxhammer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=27

My first girlfriend bet my buddy--who was in the car with us, and a couple of other people--that she could jerk him off in thirty seconds or less. She was astonished when I showed her the door. ...

She was astonished when I showed her the door. Astonished.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322574#Comment_322574 2012-01-26T06:29:26-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 Peter Kelly http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=3000

@Fauxhammer - another story without a happy ending!?

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322586#Comment_322586 2012-01-26T08:39:25-08:00 2012-01-26T09:08:36-08:00 Fauxhammer http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=27

I got the happy ending when I was free of the little tyrant. EDIT: Let me get my happy ending in there before I find my pee-hole full of larvae. This incident was in March of 1993. By March 1994 I ...

EDIT: Let me get my happy ending in there before I find my pee-hole full of larvae. This incident was in March of 1993. By March 1994 I was with the girl I wound up marrying, and we're very happily married today.

If she does offer HJs to my pals, she has the good grace not to do it in front of me.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322587#Comment_322587 2012-01-26T08:53:05-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 Horrible Warning Si http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=1223

Tempted to go back through this thread and edit to add "but it all turned out for the best" to every post.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322589#Comment_322589 2012-01-26T09:14:42-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155

@Horrible Warning Si Fuck yes it did, at least in my case. It's been almost six years and I think the crazy finally got the hint that I really didn't want to ever see her again.

Fuck yes it did, at least in my case. It's been almost six years and I think the crazy finally got the hint that I really didn't want to ever see her again.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322593#Comment_322593 2012-01-26T09:27:01-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 oldhat http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=75

Si, Oh it DEFINITELY turned out for the best. I had a complete breakdown, talked to nearly no one...fuck, I even tried to revive the fucking relationship with the dirtbag or even try and be his ...

I blocked him from every social media platform I was on, I cut off contact with all of our mutual friends, and decided that I was through sacrificing a part of myself for someone. I realized that in that relationship I gave up everything for what he wanted to do and lost interest in the things I like but he didn't. I didn't like that and decided to be me (and anyone who didn't like me could go to hell). Started taking photos, started therapy, started exercising, started going out to free events and making friends from it and bit by bit I was getting myself back.

And now here I am. A photographer and boxer who brews her own beer, plays a dwarf fighter in D&D and has interests in science, history and several other things. I'm also with an amazing guy who thinks the world of me and I of him. It all turned out for the best!

For the past few years I had attended a Buddhist New Year ceremony and one of the things I learned there on how to deal with being wronged was to remove everything but the lesson you learned. That way it turns in to a positive thing. That really helped me.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322596#Comment_322596 2012-01-26T09:36:02-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155

Another worst break up: this one was with my ex-fiance and was my own doing. I was engaged when I went to college to the woman I got together with after the Psycho and it was probably one of the ...

I was engaged when I went to college to the woman I got together with after the Psycho and it was probably one of the worst decisions of my life. Essentially, I got to university, where she was also going, and came to the realization that, while I loved her, I didn't want to be engaged. It wasn't that I had lost interest in her but I can't deny that I was also attracted to other people.

And instead of doing the mature, and painful, thing of just breaking up with her I did the immature and more painful thing and dragged it out. There were multiple break ups and getting back together. The whole situation was vastly unhealthy but we didn't know how to stop being together; we still loved each other and wanted to be together, but I also wanted to be with other people thus the breaking up, feeling miserable, getting back together cycle.

During this time she met the guy she'd eventually marry: my roommate at the time. Strapped for cash, he and I had moved into the same house as my sort-of ex and, during the time of me being an immature prat, they connected which fucked me up in other ways (hearing them have sex for the first time probably didn't help either). I failed all of my classes that quarter, didn't sleep three nights out of seven, and lost about twenty pounds. Additionally, he didn't like me for a long time after they got together, but it worked out in the end (we're all friends now, she's forgiven me, and I was even an usher at their wedding, but god did that time in my life blow).]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322663#Comment_322663 2012-01-27T03:52:36-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 Lawrence Rider http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10647

@Si: Just to bring a bit of cheer then, post mad ex, I've now been in a relationship for (almost) seven years. Which is a terrifyingly long time. This one has just the one personality.

http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322674#Comment_322674 2012-01-27T07:11:26-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949

High School Post-Puberty Sick Twisted Decent Into Alienation And Origin Of A Bad-Boy. I was nearly fifteen and doing ok at school:top of the year in chemistry and enjoying English,art etc. I ...

I was nearly fifteen and doing ok at school:top of the year in chemistry and enjoying English,art etc.

I started to see this girl.Bit older than me and pretty as hell.While we where dating i sensed something...a bit strange about her.Still,i was infatuated.

One weekend my single-parent-jazz-groupie-mom was away and i had a small party.I ended up,of course,sleeping with this girl.We had clumsy sex BUT we didn't go all the way.Sometime after the thing with the girl came to an end.No big deal.

This is when school turned into a surreal nightmare.Teachers used to ask me to stay behind after class telling me they knew what i'd done.The bearded twat religious education teacher had it in for me big style.The girls i was mates with started to give me dirty looks.Honest,i was so young and naive i had no idea for a while what was up.I guess it was then that i noticed that the girl i had been seeing had started putting on weight and looked bloated.And one lunchtime i discovered the letter.Pure sickness...

She'd wrote in graphic detail that we'd(please excuse me for this,the're not my words)gotten my semen and that we'd used our hands to force it up her to impregnate her.Fuck...i think i fell over with nausea,disgust and horror.I was just a kid.There where all sorts of other perverted,twisted lies and this letter had been passed around the school and people where believing it's absurd contents.She even rang my mom saying i'd gotten her pregnant.

Of course it ended up she just had a problem with her glands.It was dealt with terribly,brushed under the carpet as was the way then.But the damage had been done and my life at school went to shit,forcing me and my gang to go there one night so i could pick up a paving stone and throw it through the head's window laughing insanely...]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322727#Comment_322727 2012-01-27T16:23:52-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 JP Carpenter http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=2485

@Flecky... ow... ow... ow... I had two flatmates who split up badly... things were kind of OK until she got a new bloke. Who was a special policeman. This was somehow inflammatory, and the jilted ...

I had two flatmates who split up badly... things were kind of OK until she got a new bloke. Who was a special policeman. This was somehow inflammatory, and the jilted guy went literally insane. One night, the girl and her new chap (in uniform, which I think was the catalyst for what followed) were in the front room, and he'd, we thought, gone to bed. Until they went to bed, and found him naked, in her bed. She screamed, and sent me in there to negotiate with him. Which I did, eventually, getting him to slink off. All was calm, and after they'd chilled out again, they went to go to bed again. This time, he came flying out of his room and started banging on their door - 'Hey copper, she say's you're shit in bed. That I'm the best she's had and that you can't get it up. And your dick's tiny, she's told me that'. New bloke, surprisingly, kept very cool while getting all the abuse. Which carried on - 'I bet you're trying to shag her now, but you CAN'T... hahahahahahahahaha. Get it up if you can, you limp dicked bastard'.

After a little while longer of this, they decided to cut and run back to his house, leaving me alone with this guy who was pretty much frothing at the mouth. At this point, given that a week or so before he'd tried to set fire to himself in a duvet, I had a panic attack and collapsed. When I pulled myself together, I put on my biggest pair of paratrooper boots and slept in those, then first thing in the morning went down the pub, where I stayed all day fuming. In the afternoon, he phoned the pub (this was before mobiles - he'd guessed where I was) and asked if he could meet me. I told him he had to get out, there was no coming back from this - it took us another three months, I think to finally get him out, which included me having to pin him to the wall by the throat when he went for me... Was truly a horrible episode.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322752#Comment_322752 2012-01-27T23:22:45-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 RenThing http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=155

@JP Carpenter Jesus. Worst break up I was a third party for was my college hausmate living in a big geek haus. His girlfriend of many years, whom he was very much in love with, decided that ...

Jesus.


Worst break up I was a third party for was my college hausmate living in a big geek haus. His girlfriend of many years, whom he was very much in love with, decided that she'd had enough of him, revealed one day in spat that she'd been cheating on him and only using him for his money (he made a LOT of money as a senior sys admin for Cisco) . She then dumped him.

This fucked him up.

While the rest of us were gone he wrote a note that saying he was going drive up the Pacific Coast Highway at speed on his bike and if he made it to San Fran from Santa Cruz then that meant he was supposed to live. And, if not, well, he was dead so fuck it. This was left on our haus server with a timer to send it off to all of us at 5:30 when we were back from work and school.

Another hausmate found the note while mucking about in the server. No suicidal hausmate to be seen, missing bike. Said hausmate was also the keeper of the lease and without him we'd all be fucked.

Next was a couple of hours of frantic calling around of friends when we FINALLY found him down with a friend in Monterey. Turns out he went to go ahead with his plan, pulled out into the street, and was nearly, promptly run over by a car making an illegal left.

"THAT FUCKER NEARLY KILLED ME!" he told us he thought. Which was then followed up by, "Wait a minute....oh." He then drove, carefully, to Monterey to see his friend and have some sense talked into him.

He bought us all dinner and a ton of booze as a make-up present.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322966#Comment_322966 2012-01-30T19:54:36-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 Orpheus http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=6151

I've always been a tool in my relationships, either being oblivious to true motives or being a cold fish from an inability to make the first steps. This means that i have also had rather few and ...

So, the breakup was easy enough. An early morning text telling me in a few short sentences that the relationship was over and that she was sorry. I barely even noticed i was still under her thumb. A few days after, she gets back with her ex, while at the same time playing the mind games with me - "I wish we could be together", "Its just me and you, really". I wont go any further, for as i said - total tool.

Suffice to say i was made quite the cynic towards most relationships that time had yet to test. This also means that I've been out of a relationship for over three years now.

HAPPY ENDINGS MAKE HAPPY PEOPLE (and the lack ballistic crotch worms)
Something posted here a while ago, a youtube video entitled 'How To Be Alone", where I took the quotation "If you're happy in your head, then solitude is blessed and alone is okay".]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322974#Comment_322974 2012-01-30T20:54:49-08:00 2012-02-18T09:54:25-08:00 flecky http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=8949

@Orpheus:You know,there is a lot of truth in that quotation.Ok,maybe i'm not the best example or the best to give advice, but i've found that it can be be better to be alone and to,naturally,feel ...

But hey,that's just me.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=322984#Comment_322984 2012-01-31T01:37:14-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 Kay Orchison http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=10078

@Flecky That's not just you. That's proper wisdom. Well said. k.

That's not just you. That's proper wisdom. Well said.

k.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=323044#Comment_323044 2012-01-31T13:59:04-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 sellmeyoursoul http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=9518

Final year of university, I worked with this amazing beauty six years my senior. I asked her out and she said no. We started hanging out non-stop and fighting like an old married couple. After about ...

I broke up with her and then again every night for the next week (since I was foolish enough to take the tear-filled phone calls). They included gems like “you’re right, we shouldn’t see other people there’s someone else, isn’t there?” (in this case, note the lack of punctuation) Eventually, she showed up at my door and I had to explain through it that there was no one else and I’d rather be alone than be with her.

My next serious relationship was my ex-wife. Sorry @Si. With my love life, the only happy endings seem to be the ones I give out for a fiver to help pay off my divorce attorney. But I’m at the point where I’d like a relationship, but don’t need one, so no worries.]]> http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10459&Focus=323056#Comment_323056 2012-01-31T16:07:34-08:00 2013-06-18T14:32:18-07:00 Robson http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/account.php?u=682

I met her a month before I moved to San Francisco. She was going to join me out here. For a while I was living the city for two of us, and the letters and mixtapes back and forth were a joy. Then ...

Then after a performance of hers went badly, she demanded proof that I loved her. Qualifying such things to a paranoid pothead under serious stress was never going to work. We broke up over the phone.

I spent a long time walking alone thru this city I barely knew. What felt like a cinder block parked itself in my gut for about a week there.

My best friend from high school wound up moving here, which pretty much saved me.

Home for Christmas, I talked to a friend who knew her and me. I related the details of the breakup.

"You realize that she was fucking insane, right?"

Absorbed as I was by what turned me on/moved me about her, I actually hadn't realized that, but it made an awful lot of sense. Said friend was threatening to kick said ex's ass if she ever saw her again, but as colorful, sweet, and moving as her profanity-laden tirade no doubt was, I couldn't hear it through the deafening whoosh of the departure of my post-break-up malaise.

I emerged from that break-up wiser and more cautious, and returned to SF ready to live, which I've done ever since.]]>