never the same again
Many years ago a female friend left her diary at my place and having found it I had to have a peek. (I was egged on by my ex-wife, so the guilt is less.) Anyway it was the usual teen angst stuff, which was a bit sad cause said mate was in her early 30s by then, and then we hit paydirt, stuff about her boyf. Now this boyf was actually a mate of mine, and the only reason I knew her, so this impacts on him more than her. It was the imagery and euphisms that got me.
"I am the pure crystal fire" she wrote, "and I see him as the waterfall. The waterfall deluges the Crystal fire but cannot quench it's inner flame."
It went on like that for too long.
Sickmakingly cloying, and now the two of them (long since parted) are known as Crystalfire and waterfall behind their backs. Well I had to share didn't I?

Never saw the two of them the same way again, and in some ways this stuff was worse than graphic shag imagery.

I don't keep a diary, but if I did it would be too filthy and embarrassing for words.
(Mr Steve is jobless and fancyfree!, Sun 4 Feb 2007, 22:29, Reply)