When Damienne looked at me and said that she wished for me to be her servant and wait on her hand and foot, bringing her bonbons, I almost died!! What a thing for a ten year old girl to say! Then, it occurred to me, Damienne didn't have the dark hair on her arms that girls her age normally start developing. She had less freckles than I remembered. Did freckles go away, I wondered? Was it the same Damienne that had come to stay with us just a few months earlier, or was she an imposter? A very youthful looking adult? Was it me, or was it a different person?
Flash forward 28 years, and I'm starting to feel like this woman is just pretending to ne sick to trap me into fussing over her, like I did my mom when her health started deteriorating. The more it seems, she is playing the role she thinks best suits making me treat her the way she wants. The more I think about it, the more wildly offensive and manipulative it is. People are sick. Some, sicker than others.
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