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Ingrained

There are some things you will never forget in life.  Like the regional spelling bee competition and the word you got wrong: ‘caliginous.’  The red flag waving.  The bell sounding.  That you will never get a chance as an 8th grader to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee.  This was it. This was your moment.  And you will never forget being wrong.  Could I have studied harder? Could I have done something differently?

And like the regional spelling bee, I will never forget telling someone I was pregnant when I was not.  I will never forget that I told someone’s girlfriend that her boyfriend had been cheating on her for the past three months.  I will never forget doing everything that I could so she would believe me.  She thought I was mad.  She thought I was crazy.  So I showed her everything.  I opened up my truth.  I didn’t do it so she could be spared–although that was the end result.  I did it because it was unfair.  It was unfair that some guy was in a committed relationship, cheating, and sleeping with many women.  He was getting the best of both worlds. I didn’t think that was fair and I wouldn’t stand for it.  So I told her.
That is my story.  I thought I’d tell it as my end of 2008 story.  Then New Year’s came and went. And I thought, ‘It’s over.  The story is over, done, and stale.  No need to tell it anymore.  It’s a new year.’
Then she called.  So I will tell the story.  From beginning to end.  Very soon.  It will be my next post.

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