My hat's off to you Tristan! It's hard as hell to stand by quietly when you know the true character of a person. While there's always the chance that they've changed, it doesn't happen all that often to someone who's been able to get away with their lies and/or selfish behavior. There's a 'man' (using the term loosely here for he's anything but) who abused a daughter (she was 6 at the time) of my friend (BADLY) but because he was underage at the time (15 then, he's now 26 or 27), was given house arrest and counseling to rehabilitate him. According to the law, he's paid his dues but, I can't help but wonder if he's truly sorry for what he did and has changed. Though I don't see him often, maybe once or twice a year, it makes me sick to see him happy and laughing it up with the deli clerk or the supermarket teller when I do. To anyone's knowledge, he's not done anything physical like that since but according to his mother (a relative of my friend) he is an asshole to his current wife.
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