There are some things you can't say unless you're enlightened enough yourself
Enlightened.
I don't know if I can remain friends with her. I've thought and thought about it-she'll never know how much. I gave it one last try. I called her, after a year. But I didn't like the way the conversa- tion went. The problem is that she is not very enlightened. Or I should say, she is not enlightened enough for me. She is nearly fifty old and no more enlightened, as far as I can see, than when I first knew her twenty years ago, when we talked mainly about men. I did not mind how unenlightened she was then, maybe because I was not so enlightened myself. I believe I am more enlightened now, and certainly more enlightened than she is, although I know it's not very enlightened to say that. But I want to say it, so I am willing to post- pone being more enlightened myself so that I can still say a thing like that about a friend.
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