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A strange thing happened today. I got a call from someone I haven't heard from in a while; several years in fact. Here's some background information.

Having been my best friend in middle school, but having parted ways in high school due to my moving, a few years ago I hear from him. At the time I was living with my girlfriend of about 2 years, and he was married. He was moving out of his apartment and needed a place to stay. My girlfrined, bless her naive little heart, thought it was a good idea for them to move in with us. The invitation was extended, and I didn't want to be the bad guy by retracting it, so they moved in. Drama, drama, drama; that's what I had to deal with while they were there. She worked at a strip club as a "cocktail waitress", my girlfriend was a waitress at a restaurant which subsequently closed down. She asked my girlfriend to work with her, telling her how good the money was, etc. As it turns out this "cocktail waitress" job was bullshit. They were strippers. Not just stripping on stage, but lap dances, VIP, the works. I had expressed to my girlfriend explictly that I didn't want her doing that. Repeatedly at that. I found out I was being deceived not only by my roommates, who I opened my house to, but my girlfriend as well, and I flipped. I kicked them out and moved out in the course of a week. I wasn't sure of the roll my former best friend in all of this, but I was sure he knew more than I did.

Here it is, 3 years later, and I get a phone call. It's him apologizing to me. He and his wife have split up, he needs his friends. Now, I wonder what roll I should play in all this. I know for a fact that he is manipulative, but I also know that he's mentally unstable and needs what help he can get.