I’ll Deny I Ever Denied That

“So what’s going on with Jackie?” I asked.

“The cops are a little suspicious,” Daniel said. “She took out an insurance policy on him right before he got sick. One point five million dollars.  She’d been researching poison on her home computer.  They found texts between her and the guy next door.”

“And she’s denying she tried to kill him?”

“Absolutely. She says they’d been planning a trip overseas and she got the policy in case something happened on the trip. The poisoning sites came up when she was doing a search on food poisoning to get ready for her trip.  She claimed the texts were a sarcastic joke. She didn’t always get along with the neighbor and they were kidding about missing each other while she was away.”

“That’s a little hard to believe.”

“The crazy thing is Jackie believes it, at least partially. It’s like she’s convinced herself. Ever heard such denial?”

I laughed. “I have. I knew a guy with three DUIs and early stage liver disease.  He blamed his DUI’s on road construction. Said freshly poured asphalt fumes made him sick, which damaged his liver and made him look like he was driving under the influence.”

“Denial, it’s almost a reflex,” Daniel said.

“I’ve seen it in a hundred forms destroy a thousand lives.”

Today I’ll beware of denial.

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