"I feel like I’m in a parallel universe here, where the facts just don’t sink in."
-Rachel Maddow on MSNBC’s Race for the White House with David Gregory, 4/24/2008
It was early on in elementary school that I learned friends often disappoint. The incipient dynamics at play – literally and figuratively – could radically swing from the thick chains attached to hip-hugging straps, to heights never before achieved, or, from the pinnacle of the jungle gym, precipitously fall from grace. Most of these disappointments were based upon associations – she likes him?/but he doesn’t like me, so I don’t like him./do I still like her?/why can’t she just choose, and if she does, let it be me? – though some were just breaches of trust that strained a young credulity, like someone I knew well enough, kind of liked ok, would talk to occasionally, who now suddenly was caught stealing my Hostess Twinkies from my lunch bag.
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