“So, what are you doing?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Pandering my life away, why?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Just wondering, want to pander some life in my direction?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“No.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Why?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You broke my heart and I want nothing to do with you.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Then why didn\u2019t you block my call?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I\u2019m a masochist.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“So why not let me come over?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Because I\u2019m a self-respecting masochist.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“That\u2019s an oxymoron.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I\u2019m that too.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“No, that can\u2019t be a ‘you,’ that\u2019s an event, a lapse in logic.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“I\u2019m that too\u2013lapsing in logic.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“No. \u00a0Listen, everything on the planet does not define you.\u00a0 These are happenings, not diagnosis or self-defining personality traits.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“That\u2019s not what my shrink says.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Who the hell is he, some mountain top Guru?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“No, he\u2019s my brother-in-law, he practices down on the South Side.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“People pay him to make them psychological hypochondriacs?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“No, he does it for free. He makes his living baking cakes, but you know how dangerous that can be.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Sure, so for free he makes you feel like shit.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Yup, sorta what you did for a year – all free to me.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You know, perhaps you are just a lying masochistic looney.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Which makes you a truth-until-it- hurts sadist.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“How can truth make me a sadist?”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“Truth alone isn\u2019t sadistic but mix it with a person who is calling a psychological-wreck-of-a-human-being-because-you-broke-up with-her just so you can have a one-night stand is sadistic. Tell you what, why don\u2019t you hang-up on me, and hook-up with some visually turned on female at a bar so I can go on eating my cake.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“You\u2019re sick.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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