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Cake day: March 23rd, 2025

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  • I was passionately in love with a parasitic substance abuser

    It was fun. By all the gods people have invented, it was fun. She was amazing at turning on the charm. All my friends were thrilled for me, saying how delightful she was

    What they didn’t see was the manipulation, the abuse and expert-level twisting of everything to be either my responsibility or my fault

    It all fell apart when I was busy working and she started using again. We weren’t angels. We drank (her drinking worried me, and that’s saying a lot given how fond of booze I am), we took drugs, we were playing very hard

    If I hadn’t ended it, I know that it would have cost me everything. I was perilously close to doing things that would have cost me my career (which I did eventually anyway, but under quite different circumstances)

    But without my “supervision”, she slipped back into getting high as soon as she was awake. I started to see why she was a child in an adult’s body

    One day, her excuses for her shitty behaviour sounded even more hollow than usual, so I pulled the pin.

    I learnt a lot. I’m glad it happened, but I wouldn’t do it again.
















  • I almost lost a fingertip a couple of years back when someone I worked with fucked up.

    That’s the only one I’m slightly miffed about.

    I have enough sensation, and the scarring has improved with time

    My tattoos are old and wonky, but they’re a marker of my life. They are with me to remind me of where I am, and where I have been

    I’ve removed all the piercings apart from the PA, and that’s not closing up without surgery. I’m actually really fond of it. I’ve had it for a couple of decades now, and I think it’s pretty impressive

    Most importantly, my woman likes it!