The Light in That Box Was an Angel

A good friend of mine is bipolar and he's gone through the ringer, all kinds of things over the years. But for a while he was on lithium. I think that he was describing lithium when he told me this, but he said that it was like someone puts gauze on your mind, like on your brain. And you're seeing everything through this gauze and this is incredibly heavy bandage. He says she looks greenish and reptilian almost. She's really, really sick. Then she accuses the boy of having, um, of having fucked up basically. Don't you realize that the light in that box was an angel and that now because of you, it's

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