The addict’s partner had publicly exposed the addict’s infidelities and extravagencies, destroying that person’s esteemed reputation.
And when the young woman saw the addict again, witnessing her extremely altered form, for once in her life she refused to hug someone looking for a friendly face.
Not because she rejected the person, but because she realized that in that moment she could not pretend to accept something that so greatly upset her.
But her own partner at the time witnessed this reaction, and instead of asking for her reasons, chose to judge her for insidious meanness.
There were consequences to be paid for in standing on your own…
The addict went and killed herself; the partner cheated on and left her; and the accuser never felt that she ever had anything at all to atone.
