What Kind Of Friend Are You, Anyway?
Patricia Hale , the author of In the Shadow of Revenge is visiting me today and proposed a tough question this is answered by her heroine, Cecily Minos. How far would you go for a friend? Would you hand over your last Hershey Kiss, the last chocolate chip cookie, the rose on top of the birthday cake? Would you lie, steal and risk a law career that took six years in academia and thousands of dollars in student loans to complete? What about if you’d already let that friend down once before… in a big way? A way that left you haunted and guilty every time you looked at her, dazed and unforgiving over a bottle of Jack Daniels you might as well have put in her hand yourself. You can play the tough love card and make the choice hers. Drop your guilt in her lap and tell her to stop playing the victim. And if that works, you might feel absolved. You might pat yourself on the back and ignore the niggling that says you still didn’t truly set things right. The past is sti...