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- From: rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu (Rachel J. Perkins)
- Newsgroups: alt.angst
- Subject: Re: I don't think I know you at all
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.195848.19883@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:58:48 GMT
- References: <1993Jan23.155326.10234@eff.org>
- Sender: news@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu
- Organization: st. alfonso's pancake breakfast
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- In article <1993Jan23.155326.10234@eff.org> fsquared@eff.org (Fawn Fitter) writes:
- >I need to howl. I need to scream and cry and holler "why?" as loud as I can
- >and get all this anxiety out of my body so that I'm not boiling over with
- >tension for the confrontation I'm about to have this afternoon.
- >
- >All these little niggling annoyances with M. were causing a low amount of
- >background noise on the anxiety-o-meter until yesterday morning, when I
- >discovered inadvertently (no, I was _not_ snooping) that he is carrying ID
- >and at least 2 kinds of plastic in a name that is not the one I know him by.
- >One of the credit cards is a gold AmEx I've seen him use multiple times. I
- >can think of at least a dozen reasons why someone might have ID and plastic
- >in another name, but I can't think of any _good_ reasons. I'm freaking out.
- >This man, who for all practical intents and purposes is Mr. Wonderful to me,
- >is not what he appears to be. But what is he? Who is he? Hell, I don't even
- >know if he's told me his real name.
- >
- >I'm going to ask him about all of this today. I'm starting to realize that
- >since I don't know him as well as I thought I did, I have no idea how he's
- >going to react. Part of me thinks he's going to just come out with the truth.
- >But there's a little paranoid part of my brain that's afraid he's going to
- >hurt me. I have no reason to imagine he would. But I don't know anything about
- >him anymore.
-
- this is really interesting. i had a friend (who wanted to be more than a
- friend) recently who turned out to have been living a lie. his entire life's
- story (as told to me) was a complete falsehood. his education, his current
- position, his thesis, his computer abilities, his family, his 'acceptance'
- into med school, the whole bit. he even lied about his age. i didn't know
- what to think. the mind boggled. was he so bored with his own life that he
- made one up? i found out, piece by piece, at first inadvertently, and then
- by investigation. and then i told him. and he clammed up, and didn't even
- try to explain. so i told him to get psychological help, and to leave me
- alone. and he did. he sent back the books and videotapes i lent him, and
- left me alone. he's involved with another woman who works around here now.
- i'd like to ask her about him, but i'm a) sure he's 'warned' her about me
- and my 'lies', and b) not wanting to involve myself in what looks like a
- pretty happy relationship. so i left it.
-
- not quite the same thing as the previous experience, but it reminded me
- of it. and the guy used to post to alt.angst. for all i know, he still
- reads it.
-
- bah.
-
-
- --
- -just give me what for,
- rachel perkins = rperkins@astro.as.arizona.edu
- coed naked internet grep! always keep your link up!
-