I survived war. An idiot had just tried to risk my life for his benefit.

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I found honesty in poetry. I befriended the homeless and the insane. I learned how to be myself.

I learned how to defend myself. I learned who I was. I learned how to create my own story. I decided that all of human history was my history and all of the world was my inheritance. I decided that I didn’t need to own anything anymore.

I still owned things

Avoiding addiction only to fall in love with addicts, I learned about love.

I learned war games dating from April 1999 called for an invasion force of 400,000, over twice as many as were approved. I learned regional conflict and division along religious and ethnic lines had been predicted. I thought back to 9/11.

I realized the con was longer

He wasn’t an idiot. He was an addict.