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Hekate

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2. Since that issue confronts me now with an old friend and neighbor, I'd say...

Reply to 1StrongBlackMan (Original post)

Sun Mar 20, 2016, 05:46 PM

Mar 2016

... I kept my distance until several gestures of apology were made (we're never going to hear the actual phrase "I'm sorry&quot ; and I checked with my husband (who was the injured party), and what he said was: "It was last October. She was in pain and on drugs. Time to let bygones be bygones."

The relationship will never be totally what it was before our neighbor had her meltdown, but I'd hate to develop what my sister calls Irish Alzheimers: "Where you forget everything but the grudges." Time to have her back over for some coffee.

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