Overheard

by Little Miss Attila on March 10, 2011

“So, do you still love me?”

“You had a fight with your mom over lunch.”

[Deadpan] “How did you guess?”

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She is so mean. I am 48 years old, and it still takes my breath away–the fact of it, the skill with which it’s accomplished, and her complete unawareness of her own brutality.

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vanderleun March 10, 2011 at 8:39 pm

Perhaps a gentle, chiding phrase such as “I tol’ you that bitch wuz ka-razy!” would work.

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Cynthia Yockey, A Conservative Lesbian March 11, 2011 at 3:52 pm

The way this works is that they stab you to feed on the emotional blood. And they use the confusion you as a good person feel about whether you provoked or deserved the attack to addle you.

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