10/ I won't go into the full story (lest I stroke out), but when she sold an investment property and had $50k land in her lap, instead of
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11/ paying me all the things she'd promised again and again, she decided to take a vacation w her family.
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12/ Then, with what's left, she decided that she should set up a nest egg. She only had $10k left after other "real" debts to CC and such
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13/ couldn't "afford" to pay me, when she had that need for savings. Tried to welsh out on: * my cash loan * my wages ...
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14/ * tried to liquidate inventory (which was OK), but NOT pay me 50% (which was in contract)
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15/ and most galling of all - and this is really too over-the-top even for fiction: when her mother died, she had no spare cash to bury her
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16/ so at the time, without a second's hesitation, I whipped out my credit card. Because what the !@#% else does a friend do?
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17/ so, anyway, she avoided that debt for a year, and then - when she got her windfall - tried to stiff me. ON PAYING FOR BURYING HER MOM
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18/ I could turn this tweet into a 300 item long tweetstorm, but I won't. Let me just say this: I'd known this woman for 20 yrs >
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19/ ...and I'd always known that her ethics leaned a bit towards "I want what I want". But even then, I had no sense of the scale of >
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20/ just what a utter moral coward she was I ended up getting paid but she destroyed 20 yrs of friendship Haven't seen my godkids in 1 yr
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22/ Money comes and goes You'll have windfalls and bankruptcies. You'll launch firms, sell books, lost money on investments All works out
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