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Nut jobs like me can’t process misfortune in a calm way

27 July 2019

9:00 AM

27 July 2019

9:00 AM

‘Ah well, it can’t be helped,’ said the builder boyfriend. I call people who talk like that civilians. Nut jobs like me can’t process misfortune in such a way.

He shouted and screamed for two days about the accident and then he just got over it. ‘Ah well, it can’t be helped,’ he said, after telling me his insurance company was accepting liability.

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