Say Hi to Your Mother For Me

My coworker invited me to hang out with her and her dad after work today. He turned out to be charming as hell. A bit flirtatious too. My coworker's father did leave her mom for a younger woman. I could see how it happened. This guy is always on the prowl. When he spoke to me, he did not relate to me in a paternal, indifferent, mildly friendly way. Instead he spoke to me as if we were peers, as if he was dying to know all about me. Anyway, he kept getting calls and disappearing, and that was when she filled me in on some more juicy stuff about her life. Her wealthy affluent father never supported her or her siblings, and there were days when they starved. She had a lot of anger towards him growing up, but was able to get over it when she had her son. She wanted her son to know his grandpa. So things are a little better. Anyway, every time I hang out with this chick we have these heavy and delightful conversations. She is always having some sort of catastrophic breakdown/ life change, but it's not like a simple car accident. Her problems are beautifully horrific and erotic and violent and passionate, all of it based on some sort of juicy moral dilemma. She is so unafraid to reveal the messiness of her life, so humble and hard-working and yet she is always so unfailingly nice and classy. Every time she shares her problems it always takes my breath away. And here I thought my problems were something! Hers are so epic and humongous, they are brave, courageous, frightening, and beautiful and human.

It kinda gives me the creeps that I find her so likable. She told me that she used to be a pathological liar. *shivers*