Carol, a wonderful girl I was once desperately in love with.

Chris, My best friend and roommate in college.

And Roger, someone I've known and been close to continuously since junior high school.

Carol eventually came back from the edge and made something wonderful out of her life, we're still friends but I still haven't fully recovered, and she's still not quite the same inside

Chris is bipolar, has recently embraced racist right wing politics and Donald Trump and goes through violent and self-destructive episodes that last for decades on end. I haven't heard from him in years.

Roger is convinced Dick Cheney and the CIA tap his phone and break into his house periodically in an effort to gaslight him.

Fire and Rain