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Originally posted by Haunted
OMIGOD! Pot was his parent's version of "deep emotional stress." It wasn't a rehab center, though, it was like, Charter Pines or something. Did they think you were the cause of the problem, Rayne? That seems to be the scenario in most cases. Why parents can't accept that their kids are fucked up by their own bad parenting or the child's own volition I will never know.
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No..They didn't say it was 'my fault'....BUT...They said that he shouldn't associate with 'people like me' because I hung out with him, even though he was a POT SMOKER.....So, basically, I was a bad person because I hung out with THEIR son...
Incidentally...I had ALWAYS tried to get him to quit (ironically, because I was afraid his psycho mother would try to pull some stupid shit like SENDING HIM AWAY)...And he NEVER smoked around me...
The way these places work apparently, is they seperate you from ALL of your friends, tell you they are bad influences, and basically break you down and brainwash you...He wasn't even the same person when he got out....Wouldn't talk to anyone, and the high school worked with the 'program' so that he would be let out of all his classes 5 minutes early so that he could walk through the halls to his next class without 'running into anyone'....I circumvented that one time...
I left MY class 10 minutes early, watched where he went, caught up with him in a deserted hallway in front of the gym, blocked his path so that he HAD to talk to me, or push me out of his way...he stopped, stared at me, wouldn't say anything...Then he started to CRY, and said, "I'm sorry...I just can't....They are watching me...You have no idea how much trouble I will be in, or what they'll do to me..."...So, I told him..."I'll see you again...When they don't OWN you...and you remember who you are"...Then I turned around and walked off...
I didn't see him again, until about 2 years ago...I had found him through his 'Highrise Certification' record....It listed his job...I called, they gave him the message...Not only did he remember me...But, he told me on the phone "You destroyed my immortal soul"...I told him, "Your mother did that"...It was like no time had passed...He said, "I told my wife about the redhead that I could never get over"...It was so sad...Then he asked, "So, where are you living now?...He made me explain it in DETAIL....The next thing he said was, "I'll be right there"...Just like that...I said, "You gotta be kidding"..He didn't say anything, so I said, "You BETTER be kidding!!!!"...Then he said, "Watch out your window"...and he hung up...
So, I was kinda freaked...I told Seri about it...She had heard about him before, she had actually LOST the necklace that he had given me, she was wearing it at the drive-in...She felt so bad because she knew that I had kept it for 20 years........Anyway, after 20 years...He rang my doorbell 15 minutes after he hung up the phone...You can't imagine what it was like...Seri had to be standing right there...She said she thought I was gonna pass out when I opened the door...I felt like I was, too.....He came in and neither of us could say a word...I backed up and fell over a chair :rolleyes: ...That was what broke the silence...he said, "Are you okay?"...I said, "I'm not really sure"....he said..."You look the same as the last day I saw you...And all the times I've seen you in my head ever since"
We hugged...But, that was it....He was still married...
It was weird, but it gave us closure, because the last thing we had said to each other the night before his mother sent him away was, "I love you...I'll see you tomorrow"
Anyway, after he left...Seri said, "OMG Mom!...He still loves you!"....Whether she was right or wrong...It didn't matter...
OMG..I can't believe I poured out that WHOLE story...
A Scorpio never forgets...
