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ugly feelings - by Elaine - manners & mystery

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I was telling someone the other day about something that happened to me in college, and as I was telling it, I realized I had distorted the facts. Not intentionally, of course. What I recounted was my emotional experience of the event rather than what actually happened. To this day, I still don’t know what actually happened and probably never will. Here’s what I know: In my senior year of college, the guy I was seeing flew to London over spring break and hung out with a girl he had a crush on from middle school. Here’s how I experienced it: My boyfriend went to London and cheated on me with a hot girl. Was he my boyfriend? Did he cheat? Even though we never labeled our relationship, and I don’t know what exactly happened in London, the fact that he and I were seeing each other every week for seven months; the fact that he went to London to meet up with her without once mentioning her to me; the fact that I found out when I opened Facebook and saw pictures of them posing like a couple i

ugly feelings fact vs. fiction Elaine Nov 21, 2023 26 5 Share Dorothea Tanning, A Little Night Music , 1943 I was telling someone the other day about something that happened to me in college, and as I was telling it, I realized I had distorted the facts. Not intentionally, of course. What I recounted was my emotional experience of the event rather than what actually happened. To this day, I still don’t know what actually happened and probably never will. Here’s what I know: In my senior year of college, the guy I was seeing flew to London over spring break and hung out with a girl he had a cru

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