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VERA: "So I guess a good path to happiness is taking the time to seek out who and what, in the midst of the hell, are not hell, then make them endure, give them space.
I just want that in life... not to be betrayed again. I want loyalty... I want sincerity."
VERA: "I always tell myself that if I become my best self, no one will dare abandoning me ever again. And the ones who did will see how wrong they were...
...but truth is, the world is full of awful people, no matter what. We live in the hell of the living."
VERA: "You see: Scott is an utter idiot, but I knew back even back then he meant no harm to no one.
It pisses me off, you know? Why you have children if you're not gonna take care of them?"
VERA: "I remember getting upset and saying something like 'at least then his parents can be the ones dealing with his daily shenanigans for once'."
VERA: "And it paid dividends: after more than one month he finally stop making my life impossible.
It was..."
VERA: "I tried to convince myself that putting up with his stupidity was another way of testing my endurance."
VERA: "To me... that turned him into even more of an annoyance, to be honest."
VERA: "And lucky me, that dumbass puppy-person was into jogging too apparently.
I guess he thought sharing that interest and going to the same school instantly made us friends."
VERA: "I'm into jogging. A body like this doesn't maintain itself by magic. I've been into it for years."