"He drank like he was at a birthday party and people told me he was on cocaine. I can't stop thinking about it"
"One of my oldest best friends behaved appallingly at my mother's funeral."
"He was out the night before and he drank like he was at a birthday party - it was just really loud and raucous carry-on."
One of the narrator's oldest best friends behaved appallingly at the narrator's mother's funeral months ago and the narrator cannot stop thinking about it. The friend had been out the night before and drank heavily, behaving as if at a birthday party, with loud and raucous carry-on. Other people told the narrator that the friend had been on cocaine. The incident has left the narrator feeling distressed, betrayed, and stuck in rumination. The overlapping grief from the mother's death and the friend's conduct complicates mourning and trust, leaving unresolved emotions and a need for confrontation or closure.
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