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Honestly explains a lot of my younger self. I always prided myself as the snitch...
In school, regularly was hated because I was the one to destroy academic cheating groups.
One of my closer female friends cheated on her idiot boyfriend that I barely could stand... I ratted her out.
Later on that same idiot boyfriend was at least trying to cheat on his newer girlfriend... also ratted him out.
Later on idiot friends girlfriend was my girlfriend for 14 years... However my blind sense of justice also causes me to think that the world works when I'm not in the right position.. I wound up paying through the nose for her to visit a female friend across the country... who, didn't actually exist. Afterwards she broke up with me, and almost imidiately had a new boyfriend... coincidentally from the location she had just flown to... and they were married within a few months.
Got an awesome son out of the deal though... Honestly the part that eats at me, is just the realization that, there's almost certainly people that knew what was happening... that just, ignored it.