There the note still sits.

But I recalled something from the Batsh*t-Crazy-a-Thon that I wanted to get down. During the pause between Wacko and Wakco II: The Return of Batsh*t-Crazy WAW Herself was sitting on the floor, listening to me -- "hearing"? dunno -- and she said the oddest thing:

"They make it impossible for people to reconcile. The state says it has an interest in marriage, but it makes it impossible to reconcile. And all the people involved? How could anyone ever reconcile? Your family? They hate me. We'd have to move, get new identities. It's impossible."

And she said that at least twice that I recall -- maybe three times. "They" make it "impossible" to reconcile.

I'm not sure I "heard" it as I should have, or perhaps I just ignored it because it was so discordant with the rest of the "conversation."

But who, exactly, are "they" supposed to be? And what's this insanity with "all the people" being made equivalent to "my family." Yes, my family is ultra-p*ssed -- but she's spent 4 months (as far as I can tell) having created this Parallel Herself, who "can't stop smiling" and is "living bliss" about the whole thing. If there's a "they" there, it's "them" -- how would she possibly confront the dozens of people she's laid this fairy tale on and "backslide" home?

I said as much to her once, you'll recall (from the previous or previous-to-that thread), and she said she'd never let her ego get in the way if something like reconciliation were possible.

But that little "and all the people" -- her own acknowledgment that, in fact, it would get in the way?

Oh, well -- gotta go for now.

The note still sits.