The oddest thing I have ever experienced was watching the man I thought I knew well for two decades turn into a stranger overnight, like a switch was flipped. More than six months later, it still unsettles me at times.
I walked past his apartment today and noticed one of the neighborhood cats curled up on the chair that used to be mine. I felt so much distance between the reality on that patio and where I stood. Yet, less than a year ago we were a happy couple vacationing together in the Caribbean, or so I thought. In all likelihood, he was probably a stranger then too, even though I didn't realize it. It probably didn't happen overnight for him.
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