roachboy

uh---yeah.
i can't even pretend to understand what's up with that story, pan.
and i can't even really tell who it's about.


i am even unclear about the question you posed based on it:
it doesn't seem to me that the boundary torture/brutality/ordinary activity is relevant to it--because the operative problem is what the ex understood these to mean and what understood was therefore appropriate for her--i guess. ustwo's crazy theory seems as plausible as any other to fill in the blanks there.


but i probably wouldn't have taken it in the direction you did--"this is what some vets are coming home to"--simply because that generalization rests on a pile of other generalizations that i don't think anything warrants.

all i would have said on the basis of the story is what is obvious: this is what this particular cat ran into. and that is must have sucked for everyone involved.


but i just don't think full disclosure has been at work--not via you, pan, but via the story sources.

it doesn't make sense.

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