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I believe he was in his

mid thirties

lived with this one-eyed

gray cat

that always sat on his lap

while he

played video games

«You should try Diablo 3,» he

once told me.

«Playing that game feels like

gambling.

You never know what item’s gonna

drop and it just gives you

that sweet dopamine release when it

does.

New season starts the day after tomorrow.»

I declined

Told him that I had no time for

video games

for I had a job and whatnot

(didn’t go so far as to tell him

that I write in my spare time)

I know that he had been

married some time ago

but it was all neighbor talk

If I am to believe the neighbors

then I’m to believe that

he was married to his

high school teacher

She taught English

and I guess somehow fell

in love with her student

There wasn’t that much of an

age difference between

them. I’m guessing somewhere

between nine and fifteen years

But where we’re from

the problem is not that

some adult seduced her underage

student into becoming her lover

the problem is

that she, the adult, was already

married and had two children

the problem is

she had abandoned that

family to be with her

student

And I guess

they were together for

a while

Married as soon as he

came of age

and then lived together

for a few years

and were happy

But her suicide?

I guess I’ll never know

Some stories are better

left untold

Anyway

Diablo 3 turned out

to be quite cool

actually