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Femme Fatale

 A month or so ago I received a text from a friend.  He and I have been friends for about 20 years.  I met him through my boyfriend, at the time, and the first thing he said to me, jokingly, was, you're scary.  I liked him immediately. We almost instantly, become friends.   He is aware of a lot of the things in my life.  Not everything of course but enough that he checks in on me regularly.  He no longer lives in the same city as me, so the check is usually in the form or a phone call or a text. I appreciate this so greatly. About two weeks after my ankle surgery, he is checking in on my recovery and he asks me a question that was said in jest but received an answer that he said was deep.  Anyone other than him I would have felt a little badly for sort of unloading on but I knew he would not be judgmental or take it negatively. This is the type of support that I needed and continue to need. If you are unfamiliar with the recovery process of a...