[Norm K]

Went through the loss of what we long believed to be our dearest friends a couple of years back. As families, we did virtually everything together: Thanksgiving, Christmas, weekends, spent a month together traveling Australia ... everything. Hell, their son lived with us as they dealt with the aftermath of their daughter's attempted suicide (we were at the hospital every day for nearly two months while she began her long road back to a somewhat normal life). We were about as close as two families can be for over fifteen years.

Then we announced our retirement and re-location. Of everyone we knew, literally everyone, including people who were just close acquaintances, this couple were the only ones who didn't wish us well, or even tell us goodbye.

The initial confusion and hurt we experienced has been replaced by pretty much complete ambivalence. I don't wish them any ill, I really just can't spend any time caring.

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