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Merge…Right?
Everyone sees it their own way. We saw it ours. The tyranny of right versus wrong never came into play. Well, if it did, then we were all wrong. And I was the most wrong as it turned out.
All it took was a day. First we were sure of what we shared and were convinced we saw things from the same standing point. It was like we were in a darkened theater, watching a tenor violating his voice with abandon and we were sure we were watching the same thing. (Ok, yes, I was sure.) And because you said nothing to indicate otherwise, I charged forward making the decisions based on our presumed common standing point.
At first, that worked. The decision to go into the wilderness of owning a home, well, who could argue with that? And what a home! With resolution and a mortgage, we moved deeper into the unknown, lighting our way with that (somewhat ridiculous) red chandelier that you had to have.
After that, there was no way to stop the dominoes. Decisions? We could kid ourselves that we chose the times, that we reasoned it all out, but as our tenor strained his upper reaches, we violated our own resources with abandon. And why not. In every direction that we looked, others were doing the same things.
