Re: Hannah S/Claire J
How do you mean? I had a really good friend who lived here, and he was so unhappy, and his girlfriend was so unhappy, but they loved each other so much, and they wanted it to work so badly. I thought that was all it took for a good relationship. Love, and wanting it to work, but I think maybe they didn't know how to talk to each other. Maybe they were scared, I'm not sure. But they weren't happy. But you're probably right that it's like Yelp and Amazon, and people only post there if they had a bad meal or got a shirt that was the wrong size. Still, it would be really nice to hear from the happy people some of the time.
Why is it acceptable? They wouldn't want their important things joked about. [She has to stare at the church thing for a few seconds.] Did that really happen? That's terrible. I can't believe Ren would do that. Did he not realize that faith is important to you? I debate religion. I do. It doesn't make a lot of sense to me, and I think talking about things is a really good thing to do, but I would never do something like that. It's really, really awful, Claire. I'm so sorry, and I don't know Fen or the woman, but I'm really disappointed in Ren. Did you tell him it hurt you? [...] I don't think you're lecturing or overbearing, but I do think people don't like to hear things plainly here. I don't understand why. We'd all get along so much better if everyone said things like you do. It's the wishy washy stuff that makes everyone misunderstood. I hope you don't go. I think we need people like you.
But, that's the thing, right? You can't know what would've happened. If they hadn't shown up, then maybe you would've found a way to make it okay. You can't know.