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She steamed and paced and stomped and stewed.
The temerity. The audacious liberties he’d taken.
It was one thing to sell the house.
Another, to have removed her name from the deed.
To have kept the change hidden.
Her parents’ house, no less.
The place of hers – not his – childhood.
Cruelty was why she’d left him.
But this?
He, vacationing on islands.
She and the children, homeless.
For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Temerity in 69 words.
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Na'ama Yehuda 
Hopefully, it’s not late to claim back what’s rightfully hers.
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Hopefully, it isn’t … though in the meanwhile I can totally understand her rage and frustration at his deliberate selfish cruelty. He sounds like a good riddance and don’t let the door hit you when you leave kind of dude …
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Oh, this hurts to read, Na’ama. Such antagonists are not rare enough. Well done.
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Thank you, Bill. Yes, sadly this is reality for too many, where those who should care for them best, use their knowledge of that closeness, to hurt them most. I can never understand how one can stand to do so.
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So true, Na’ama.
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Sigh. Thankfully, there are also a lot of people who are decent and kind, even under duress.
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Many. Maybe most. 🙂
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This is awful… not to mention illegal, I should think!
May 1000 fire ants find their way into his britches and his hands tied and not able to relive himself.
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Great and apt image, yours. Yeah. I think that will be an appropriate parallel to the suffering he’s inflicted. And … something being illegal did not stop many a cruel person from inflicting pain on others … oy.
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Good. And seriously. The least he would deserve. I never understand how people can take other people’s property away from them like that…
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I know. I don’t understand it, either. Perhaps because it is difficult for me to understand how someone would deliberately inflict pain on another. The thought itself pains me.
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Same here… And honestly, I hope to never understand it and for it to always pain me.
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Exactly.
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