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[true_noir]

CHLOE BOUCHARD

This is Chloe. Sorry, I guess you missed me. Just leave a message and I will get back to you soon.

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3/21

[obscultator]

[Guess who saw your post, Chloe.]

I understand that I may not be of much use to you in regard to relationship advice, but I want you to know that you can always talk to me, if you need to. Even if you only need someone to listen.

[He hasn't had any of these "visions" himself yet, but he has read enough anecdotes by now that he is starting to take the phenomenon seriously. But even if he didn't, it would still be his responsibility to offer an ear.]

[true_noir]

[Fuck! Why did one of the priests serving in town have to be on this blasted app? It wasn't like she'd confessed her sexuality in the confessional booth, not since she'd been a very young girl in France. That had been ...informative.]

Father, I am not sure that this is something you can really help with. These visions have been making my life a nervous wreck, and now imply that I have been unfaithful to my significant other, who still lives in France.

[obscultator]

[Well, to be fair, he's from western Oregon, so you're not exactly gonna shock him.]

Very well.

But for what it's worth, I would not say that you have been unfaithful. Coveting another in your mind is not a sin unless you actively welcome and nurture such thoughts, which clearly you have not. Your unease is itself proof of your faithfulness,.

[true_noir]

Well, father, in these visions I have been doing a great deal more than merely coveting. There has been active unfaithfulness in the things I have seen, and it makes me very uncomfortable to think of myself as being that way.

I will admit, though, that you are the first to remind me that these visions are not necessarily real, and I should not assume as much.

[obscultator]

Precisely. We have almost no quantifiable facts about these phenomena, and no reason yet to assume than they are anything more than extremely vivid hallucinations.

And even if they did turn out to be "lost memories" or "alternate dimensions" or whatever the popular fringe theory is right now, then these visions will have been of the actions of a different woman. Not the real, contemporary Chloe Bouchard.

Discomfort can be healthy. Scrupulosity rarely is.

[true_noir]

I am not sure there is a 'popular' theory, Father. I think everyone is guessing almost blindly in the dark for the most part. Though, it is at least a little reassuring to think of these things as being distant enough to myself that I should not be quite so worried about them, so long as I am not repeating her choices.