Some lessons from a life story basil, I want tell you something that happened in my life and I'm really hurting but I hope you don't make the same mistakes I did and learn something from my story. There are some people you should avoid and sadly are extremely manipulative from the start and even though you love them you don't realize how much better your life is without them until all contact is broken completely. I was in a long-distance "friendship" with a girl I met for about nine months. It just ended today. I fell in love with her, and I'm not exaggerating that I loved spending every minute of my time with her. She was highly intelligent, and quite accomplished in her own way, and that threw me off. I told her how I felt, and