I wanted to just pop back on and mention how much writing this piece affected me, because it has actually taken me by surprise. I thought I'd just write it easily and post it without much worry like usual. Perhaps the kicker was that I actually looked up the person concerned online after decades of not having a thought about him, prompted by this topic. I don't like thinking about him being out there, probably lying and conning his way through all the years since I knew him. I started wondering for the first time, about how many other people he'd hurt and asking myself what, if anything, I could have done to prevent that. All I knew to do back then in the 90s was to remove myself from the situation and write it all off to poor choices on my part. Ryan stole money from me but only hundreds, not thousands, so it was barely worth pursuing legally. The rest of what he directed towards me was emotionally cruel, but not illegal. Pity.
I wanted to just pop back on and mention how much writing this piece affected me, because it has actually taken me by surprise. I thought I'd just write it easily and post it without much worry like usual. Perhaps the kicker was that I actually looked up the person concerned online after decades of not having a thought about him, prompted by this topic. I don't like thinking about him being out there, probably lying and conning his way through all the years since I knew him. I started wondering for the first time, about how many other people he'd hurt and asking myself what, if anything, I could have done to prevent that. All I knew to do back then in the 90s was to remove myself from the situation and write it all off to poor choices on my part. Ryan stole money from me but only hundreds, not thousands, so it was barely worth pursuing legally. The rest of what he directed towards me was emotionally cruel, but not illegal. Pity.