Carl D wrote on Aug 10
th, 2024 at 7:26pm:
I knew of a drug dealer that lost his girlfriend to police officer. She ran off with him and basically were planning on having a baby together.
The guy was devastated. But he blamed his own illegal activities for why he lost her. Being in such a dangerous "profession", he was exposing his (now ex) girlfriend to dangers that someone as innocent as her should not have to face. The drug dealer basically ended his relationship with his drug dealer mates. He did a few deals to make a little money. Then he handed the remainder of his heroin to his drug dealer friends. He was not going to rat out his friends to police, as he held a grudge against the police force for allowing one of their kind to take what the man believed belonged to him. He was clean of drug use. He still smoked a little pot from now and then. But, eventually (over a period of a few weeks) he quit that. Then he quit smoking cigarettes, too. He tried alcohol to numb his pain. But he weaned himself off that, too. He decided to try wine... once a week... on a Sunday. The Anglican church was very receptive to having him as part of the congregation.
Over time, he went from no longer being a unlikeable, yet rich, drug dealer. His job as a mechanic started to get more meaningful. He was the type of person who took his job more seriously. He was a good worker for what he did. But, he was half-arseing it for part of his time. His boss was impressed with his attitude change, and offered him more flexible work hours and a possibility of managing the site when the boss was away.
Let us call this former drug dealer, Kevin. Not his real name, though. Kevin basically recognised his failures as something from that to learn. He did start a new relationship with a new girl -- an ambulance officer -- who knew of Kevin's reputation. Her name, for the purpose of this story, is Clara.
She came to the conclusion that Kevin was redeemable. Slowly, the bond between the two grew to a point where Kevin and Clara they were regularly dating. It had been 8 months since Kevin's ex girlfriend dumped him. But, Kevin had not forgotten her. He decided to write a letter of emancipation to his ex-girlfriend, just to console himself until he was ready to forgive himself. It read:
"Helen. Please forgive me for what I have done to you. You do not deserve someone that showed you the lack of respect that you do. I understand that you were scared. I made it seem that I took you for granted. It was right of you to leave me. I did not deserve the honour of having you around. However, I want to earn back your respect, and not just buy your love with the money I once had in abundance. I, too have moved on and have found someone else. Although I feel that we are not to ever reconcile, I do believe that we can reconnect as friends. That is the very least I want from you. But I understand that we are never to be together again. I love my new girlfriend to ever want someone else. Please respect who she is and what she does. For we know that the emergency services share something in common for the good of this town. But it is a common understanding that we (you and I) do not understand directly. As you are a school teacher and I am a mechanic. But I know that I have to be free of the poison that has made my girlfriend's life overburdening in her employment. I hope things work out well between you and Steve.
Kev"
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