November 12, 2019:
She followed me to university, the unique and highly personal sanctuary I'd discovered and struggled to attain.
Impossible to imagine. That anyone could do that. Invade someone's sanctuary.
I realize now I should never have told her what I'd found. Never should have shared, with her or any of them. It was mine, I should have kept it secret, kept it safe. But I was voluble and trusting, and I let slip the treasure, and she took it.
One more karmic consequence of the disastrous decision I made, leaving behind the beautiful girl in the red bowler hat.