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I do hope you are well. My name is Mark and today we're checking out some more

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Now today's first story does have a couple of warnings before we do

get into it. So if you do want to skip them, please feel free to use the timestamps down in the

description and along the timeline below. It contains abuse, emotional abuse and manipulation,

controlling behavior and codependency as well. And let's crack on with it. OPE starts off by saying TLDR at the end because this is a long one

and says, have a childhood friend, Emily, I've known since we were five. We originally met because

our respective fathers were both German and living in the UK having married British women.

They became friends and we were basically raised as siblings.

Nothing remotely romantic has ever happened between us. It's accurate to say I treat her

like I do my other sisters. People struggle at times to believe nothing has happened between

us, but is it so insane for someone with three sisters to treat a childhood friend as a fourth?

We stopped being friends briefly when she got married way too young to her boss.

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