All of this. It has a long reach into a lot of people's lives.
And I can think of a few times a friend or acquaintance has given me some bad vibes. I wonder if we'll ever hear a story about whether HB ever had a bad feeling about MF during their long relationship. It's the least terrifying of the two options, for sure.
I'll never forget being stunned by
this interview by about Bruce McArthur, because I really hoped that all the signs would be obvious to all the people around them, or that even one person got the creeps - whatever. Any hope to hold onto that it couldn't happen in your circle. Seeing young HB and MF together, and having maintained such a lasting friendship (how many of us are in such close touch with friends from that age that they'd go to doctor's appointments with us?), I feel she was blindsided.