Hiro Explains

He said some people don't know how to deal with other people's happiness. They will invent excuses, or inflate specious ones, to justify their cutting dead the happy person.

We knew a girl, he and I, who left her man of seven years. When he took up with someone new, the girl became a bit crazed. Anything she could do to put herself back in his good graces, she would. She knew his dreams and she began saying they were hers too. There were meetings, needling, tears. And when it came to destroying a friend, for a crumb of one-upmanship, she tried to do so without a second thought.

In a few short sentences he boxed up and put away two big dramas of this life.