The Axiomatic Musings of a Teen who finds solace in the places she'd least expect.

Remember how I was going to use that as a title about Jack but ended up bundling him in with another post? Well I have another person I can use it for now who deserves a post all to herself :).

Her [code]name is Dana. She's the ex of another of my friends, Keith. Their relationship ended similarly to mine and Sal's, where everything was perfect until the stupid #&@$ broke it off randomly. We aren't exactly best friends, and I wasn't sure what would happen if I did this (she never seemed particularly the warm-and-fuzzy type to me), but I thought I'd Facebook-Inbox her to see if she had any advice for surviving that kind of breakup.

And boy did she ever :D.

You know the saying 'you can't tell a book by its cover'? Well first of all it's wrong, you can read the inside flap of the cover to figure out if you like the book. Metaphorically though, it applies here ;). Dana at first look is a softball-playing tough chick. That's why it surprised me when she started opening up about another of her breakups (pre-Keith, which was much worse) and how she dealt with that. It was eye opening, I didn't think I'd find those kind of feelings in someone as seemingly tough as her. She went through a lot of the same endless crying I did and understands that feeling when non-single friends just don't get stuff. I confirmed that it would continue to suck for a while, but got some good advice about not being afraid to be alone. She offered her cell phone number if I ever needed someone to talk to.

And I think that's just spiffy.

It's so nice to know that even when girls don't know each other that well, they can still bond and be supportive about how stupid guys are ;). It's a comfort to know that there's someone there who understands me a little better than some of my other friends because of our similar experiences. Maybe it's a little schadenfreude to say this too, but I do feel a little better knowing, as I said on the very first post after Sal and I broke up, that it definitely could be worse. But if i now know someone who has been through worse, and can offer me some advice from hindsight, then maybe I've made something good come out of her experience--she just comforted another heartbroken girl. (And recruited someone else if she ever wants to launch an assassination on the non-Keith ex. Seriously, that guy should not be permitted to live on the same Earth as me.)

Us double-X chromosomes gotta stick together ;).

♪: "Keep Holding On" by Avril Lavigne