To: Solon who wrote (42642 ) 1/25/2002 2:32:18 PM From: The Philosopher Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 82486 discussing your love/hate fixation on me My God, Solong, we had PROMISED each other not to reveal our love for each other to ANYONE. Remember how you insisted that we swear on the blood of our ancestors that we would NEVER reveal this great, eternal secret of our love. And now you have broken trust with me. You have blazoned our secret over the whole web. Yes, world, it's true. Solong and I are madly, passionately in love with each other. For so long we've successfully hidden it from you, world, but he has let the cat out of the bag, has outed our relationship. But, Solong, in betraying our secret you have also destroyed it. You have crushed the mutual trust we had for each other. I'm sorry, Solong, but it's over. I can never care for you again, after you have done this to our tender mutuality. All the work we did to persuade the world that we really hated each other is wasted. All the secrets we promised faithfully to conceal beneath the veneer of apparent detestation are opened to the universe. You broke trust. You destroyed something so beautiful, so wonderful. It is gone, smashed, shattered beyond repair. Trust that deep, that intense, once lost can never be regained. It's over. I know this will be hard for you to accept. I know you will fight it. I know you will try to deny it, as though denying it could in any way destroy the past reality. But no matter how hard you try to gain my trust back, no matter how much you harass me, no matter how strong your protestations, no matter how passionately you may attack me trying to persuade others that this love never really existed, that you really hated me all along, you will fail. You will never gain back my love and trust. They are gone, gone forever. You did it. You destroyed what you once called the most beautiful, the most meaningful relationship of your entire life. Gone. Over. So long, Solong.