I was thinking about my friend Thais who died in a car accident several years ago – I met her when I was 13 and she lived in my brother’s apartment complex. She was a bookie and she had the coolest apartment I had ever seen – plants and candles and dark lighting and she had frosted blonde hair and sapphire eyes and sexy buck teeth. She taught me how to take a compliment. She also made me stand in front of a mirror and look at my body naked and admire my strengths. How do you repay that?<\/p>\n
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
\n – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/p>\n
I was telling my friends in Boston how I had received from two friends emails missives that said “don’t flatter yourself” (read: you’re not that special to me). It’s interesting that I thought both of them were special to me. It goes to show you, you think you’re having this kind of relationship but suddenly one thing can trigger deep underlying hatred and aggressively stupid behavior and you realize that the relationship has not been on equal footing. <\/p>\n
I miss Thais. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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