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I had a dream about them. I had an argument with Jessie and left Kristy a question about where I stood, and got back a lengthy message telling me I was still loved and valid, and explaining exactly what had happened at length-- the exact opposite pairing it actually happened with, with the exact opposite result.
Clearly some part of my subconscious still thinks some kind of good resolution is possible from them someday. I guess I have to work harder to disabuse it of that notion.
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It's all right, sort of. I've run the math in my head a thousand times. There's no way of recovering from this. In every single scenario, it looks like either I did something unforgivable or they did. There's no away around it.
And they did me a big favor. I was stuck in a rut there, feeling superfluous and unreal, lonely every day among four other people. I miss them and it's lonely here outside the stream of Big Group Furry Socialization. But I did not thrive there all alone.
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@zebratron2084 TBH it kinda felt like you weren't really present during my stay. That was one reason why I always tried to be warm and welcoming when I saw you (or at least tried to be, heaven knows my entire being was stuck in fight-or-flight trauma responses pretty much the first whole year I was there, thanks to the baggage I brought in with me, and I know I botched quite a few interactions during that time).
Huh. Parenthetical is longer than the rest of the statement.
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@Soreth I noticed, believe me. Trading MST3K references and such with you were among my favorite memories of the place. I miss you. <3
The "great rooms" at Transliminal Alpha and Beta always felt a bit uncomfortable to me on a day-to-day basis for Reasons. But yeah, I have always been a bit of a recluse. Even when I was in a fraternity, my nickname was "The Phantom Brother."
Going out of your way to make me feel welcome was very, very much appreciated. I'm verklempt. *hug*
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@zebratron2084 "Kitty! Mittens, are you eating gerbils again?"
Them was good times, that there bit of the past was, she said sagely. Also, I see "verklempt" now and think of someone using ve/ver and owning a Klempt, so that someone's saying "Oh, that's ver Klempt there on the counter" and I think I might have just found some kind of Phantom Tollbooth entrance thereby?
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> Huh. Parenthetical is longer than the rest of the statement.
Hey, as long as you don't go full House Of Leaves* or Pale Fire** on me, it's fine.
*,** These are, of course, both novels where most/all of the narrative gradually transitions from the main text body to the footnotes. I, of course, would never stoop to such a pretentious device. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.
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@zebratron2084 Oh, absolutely understood, nobody* would do that here**.
*: Terry Pratchett.
**: One well-known place where glass eels are collected large-scale is Epney, on the Severn, in England. (Glass eels are a food item in Spain.) Once they recruit to coastal areas, they migrate up rivers and streams, overcoming various natural challenges — sometimes by piling up their bodies by the tens of thousands to climb over obstacles - and they reach even the smallest of creeks.
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@Soreth See, you *get* it. <3
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@zebratron2084 Anyway, point is, you were cool when you were around, it was neat having you there. :)