So, I work in an old mansion that’s rumored to be maybe haunted and definitely has spooky stuff going down allll the time. I was sitting in my office, alone, up on the third floor. I had kicked my heels off for comfy and since I was done with meetings for the day. Suddenly, without knocking or anything, a man barged…

I excel at taking seasonal pictures of my cat. Probably not good enough for a book, though this is one of my favorites.

I think it’s fine. It doesn’t look white to me (but then again, I was one of the white/golders, so).

Same. We were on top of a rock on a mountain in Italy. I was snapping pictures. My now-husband waited for our family members to leave and then started kind of babbling. Took me, like, five minutes to realize that he was actually proposing and to put down the camera. I said, "Well, you know I will" and we kissed…

Yeaaaahhh, this actually happened to me. My mother got me, my husband and sister Duck Dynasty EVERYTHING last Christmas. Pajamas, plastic cups, a book they had written. Turns out she was in the last stages of liver failure (the kind that affects your cognitive functioning) because of her rampant alcoholism. She…

Oh my God, your friend is so jealous that it's killing her. She sounds like a totally insecure mess, so green-eyed she can't see straight. Ditch her.

I am literally shocked that this did not exist before. Of course, it is my privilege that makes me so surprised because I haven't ever, not once, had to think that there would not be a bra to accommodate my skin tone.

I love, love, love it. She looks like a gorge flamingo.

It's funny you say that. She has a couple of roommates (who knew him before they were dating, actually, she just moved into the new place recently) and he has been banned from their home for murky reasons that she doesn't explain well ("They just don't like him, they ganged up on him because he can be sort of…

I know! He's going to have to really think this through to pull that off. I'm betting he miraculously recovers right around the time he'd have to involve his family and other friends in the lie (obviously he's told her to keep all this "hush-hush" for now).

I had not really thought of that. I guess because I have close friends who are bipolar and it hasn't manifested in pathological lying. I suppose it could, though.

Sigh. I know. I really don't want to create an "us against the world" dynamic and she can be stubborn when it comes to her lost little lambs. I just worry she'll get into financial shit with him (he lives in a tent in someone's backyard, he's always crying poor but it's more like he can't hold down a job, etc.).

You're right about that. HELLA manipulative. When I think about it, I get so, so, pissed. If he's lying, that is SUCH a manipulative douchecanoe move I can't even stand it.

Whaaaaaat? Why the fuck? Like a sick prank? Or for attention?

Yeah, big game in Chile? Like what? I don't think elephants and tigers are hanging out in Chile.

That's a good point. Either way, something is clearly up with him. The options are he either has cancer or he has some sort of illness (maybe bipolar, as someone else suggested, perhaps pathologically lying, etc.) that he needs help with.

ALL THE WINE. A surgical mask? Holy Christ.

I guess I'm just so afraid of hurting her myself, but you're right, the truth is going to come out one way or another. I'm also afraid of her committing to him financially (he lives in a tent in someone's backyard now) and getting sucked in to a made up drama in a way that's hard to extricate herself from.

I know, I know. I love her so much and I know I'm right. Sigh. Your suggestions are good ones. Maybe it's too devious (fighting fire with fire) but I was thinking of making something up myself to catch him in a lie. Something like "Oh, are you going to [made up oncology center]? It's so close to here!". If he…

I have a very, very good friend. This is a person who was constantly there when my mother was sick, when she was dying, she's been there for everything. We're extremely close. Well, she just started dating this guy a few weeks ago and they've gotten VERY close VERY fast (declarations of love in the first…