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Vignettes - 6. Advice
Shawn is my best friend, not counting Miles of course. We met on our first day at college. He warned me about Markey. Advice I too blithely ignored. He rescued me after the catastrophe. I always seek advice from him now. Shawn is my best friend.
“Love, you can’t continue on like this! I know what a troubled relationship looks like. Listen carefully Ian: yours is not one of them! God couldn’t build a boy more in love with you than Miles! Honey, you simply need to stop interpreting each hiccup as Miles morphing into Markey! If anything, you’re going to create a rift in your relationship, one that doesn’t exist now!”
“Are you sure Shawn? I don’t think I could go on living if it happened again.”
“Ian, think back to the first few years we experienced at college. Think back to how you felt about life and love and happiness. Now become that irrepressible boy again. That’s the first half of my advice.”
Maybe Shawn is right. Why do I see everything in a dark light? Markey, that’s why. If I keep doing this, Markey still has his hold on me. Shawn is definitely right. Shawn is my best friend.
“Shawn ...thanks! You’re right, as usual. I simply must turn the page, and I promise you I will. Now, what do you mean by the first half of your advice. Is there a second half?”
“Yes. It’s three-thirty in the morning. Go back to bed and cuddle-up with the boy who loves you.”
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