-=* Rights, and Wrong *=-

I never liked her, you know.

She was too brassy, too determined.

Too...driven, driven to be better

than...anyone.

She was YOUR wife, so I dutifully

replaced annoyance with toleration

and ignored the screech of her voice,

and the insult of her presence.

You, my friend, I pity...for while I

can shut her out, and be rid of her,

you must listen to this, every day.

It must be an awful life.

I decided tonight, when she called me

yet another ugly name, and covered it

in malicious laughter to disguise the

deliberate intent, that I must change.

So...I say to you, though I love you as

I would a brother, or more, perhaps...

that she is no longer welcome in my home.

Please do not bring her here, or ask.

I understand the consequences, and I do

this sadly, but though it is something

wrong, it is what I must do. I only

hope you understand why.

Another in the foibles of what God has

created, that in being right, one could

be so damnably wrong, and pay such a price.

I will miss you.

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