“He’s a user. He’s been desperate to meet up with your aunt from the minute you started school at Saint View. He probably had some grand notion of all of us arriving together, with your aunt on his arm or something. I don’t know. He was insistent I bring you tonight. I’m pretty sure he had this whole thing planned out. Meanwhile, my mother is at home, alone and upset, because he didn’t even invite her. He pulls this shit all the time. Treats her like she’s his pet or something. He’s completely isolated her. She used to have friends once, but not anymore. He’d sulk for days if she tried to see
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