Liz, who was new to the group, was my new roommate. Ours was her first group apartment and Aggie who could be a bully under the best of circumstances, had no sympathy for Liz when she spoke nostalgically about her life before the Sullivanians, holding her wedding album close, she'd often reminisce during house meetings.
“I’m tired of hearing you moon over your family. You’re not married anymore, and your family treated you like shit when you left your husband. Forget them already.”
And then Aggie uttered the phrase I’d become all too familiar with during my short time with the Sullivanians. It was what Jackson had said to me and what I had said to Monica, It was a phrase that begins a sentence but stops all further discussion in its tracks.
“My therapist said it was okay."
And then she continued, "My therapist said it was okay for me to tell Liz to stop or else."
Twenty--four hours later Liz had disappeared, vanished, and with her Aggie's prescription of Valium. After a frenzied night trying to locate Liz. hoping the worst hadn't happened, we finally learned the truth and how Aggie's toxic behavior had been the catalyst that had pushed Liz to the edge.
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