Reminder of lost friends

As I type this one of my remaining friends from my past life is sitting on a business class flight from London to New York.

Across the aisle is another woman who was part of a large group of friends in a previous life.

The 2nd woman, Ann Benedict, does not recognize the first.

I am glad I'm not in the seat where my current friend hides. I would not know what to say to Ann, though we shared many conversations in the past. I liked her.

My ex hated her. I wonder if they still socialize. They’re all older now, as I am,

I let go of much I valued and enjoyed. Having learned it was all a chimera. Poof. A wisp in the early morning sunlight, evaporated by vectored rays.

I don’t want any of it back.  Just the friendship I believed I had with my ex.  I sense now that my ex may have been the acid that caused the whole structure to poison me as I tried to hold on for dear life. The seawater that drowned me. She was that sort of being I suppose. A thief of love and money?  She needed people to ignore the perspectives of her enemies so she could feel justified and in control.

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