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    Overheard in the Smoking Area During the Break of a Peer Support Group

    Yeah I heard what was said
    Lad, but you should know
    By now
    That it happens all the time in there, and she means
    Nothing by it: that’s just her experience.

    Anyway you’ve also got to understand—because I know
    You do, don’t you?—that it’s just…
    Well…

    It’s just that you can’t really reply with what you said, yeah, as true as that is for us?
    Yeah I know I know! I know too well

    It happens! But…
    It’s just…

    OK look I know it’s shit. Alright alright—
    Perhaps evil.

    But you just can’t talk about it, mate.

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