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Deanna Wilk's avatar

We learn how to be in friendship from our childhood friends. Your ending was really important because it’s only through that awkward moment where someone unintentionally hurts someone and they realize they have that people even hear what toxic remnants they still have circulating.

Dylan Oxley's avatar

Great writing. I read somewhere that resentment settles in the stomach like toxic waste with nowhere to go and some past "friendships" have certainly found a home there in me.

Matthew Morgan's avatar

Thanks, Dylan, I appreciate it. Yeah, that's a good way of describing it. It didn't occur to me while writing this and using alcohol as a motif, but the way these relationships linger is like a hangover, which also sit in the stomach until purged!