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I owe a friend of mine an apology. If anyone actually got through my big rant from a few posts back, I mentioned that I felt no one at school understood any of the pain and the "I want my life back!" kind of stuff, but I had a long talk with Mandie today, and dude, she gets it.

Not the pain, not exactly. She's had pain, but not in the same way as mine, you know? But she understands the frustration, and the fact that you want to be normal so badly, but its just out of reach, no matter how good you feel. And that's the really important part. I mean, when I'm flaring, its nice to have someone there who knows what kind of hell a flare is, but most of the time I'm not flaring, and that's when I need someone there who gets the rest of it, the frustration, the annoyance, even the anger, however little I think on the fact that I am rather angry about it sometimes.

So, even though only one or two people actually know who I'm talking about, my apologies to Mandie :)