• Justas🇱🇹
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    6 hours ago

    Yes. Secret Police makes people never relax. You never know who’s watching, you never know who’s listening. Your neighbours and teachers could be informants too. Apartment buildings are built with thin walls so you are not safe even within your own home. It’s a constant source of terror.

    It’s also why people older than me don’t talk to strangers, and especially, to foreigners.

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      Last couple of evenings has been cool enough to not have window units running. The neighbor’s drunken bellowing has been off the chain. Yes, I heard it over the AC but without is truly revealing, and impossible to sleep.

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        5 hours ago

        Mine gets drunk and talks to people on the phone. When she gets drunk, her soft tissues swell up and she sounds like a troll. That also doesn’t stop her from finding men to get drunk with and have loud sex with, but she never manages to keep them around for long, and I occasionally get a night of drunken crying.

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          I mean the drinking isn’t the issue. The relief they seek from underlying issues is not the issue. The despair and sadness and rage are problematic. Address the despair and other issues can be resolved.