He's dead now, there's not going to be any repercussions for him. And I figured at the time that his death meant freedom - I could do my own thing.
What I'm realising now is that the effects still reverberate. Thinking it was all in the past, I didn't look for any therapy or anything like that.
What I'm finding now, in my middle age, is there are still effects - direct and indirect - that ripple across the ways I think about friendships and relationships
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I suppose that's the Nazi lesson, in a smaller scale, and one I'm being very careful about comparing it to.
The will and ability to be cruel to others is a human thing. It's not like horror movies where there's some external evil force, it's about what lies in most people and it's mostly born from insecurities.
Which means that if you're going through anything similar, you're not alone.
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