Crocodile Tears

Chat with Check Edgar Hey CheckMates, it's Check Edgar here! I read an article this week about a man who spent 16 years raising children that were not his.

The father of those children was his best friend. The same man he built a business with.

The same man he trusted with his life. When I finished reading, I could not close my mouth for five minutes.

But then I remembered I had my own story. My girlfriend.

My best friend. My apartment.

One night I came home exhausted from rehearsals, fell asleep, and heard something I was never supposed to hear. I did not move.

I did not open my eyes. I just listened.

What I heard that night changed everything. But I did not react immediately.

I waited. I watched.

I let them both perform their innocence in front of me. And when she finally sat across from me and cried, I watched those tears and remembered exactly what crocodile tears are for.

The crocodile does not cry because it is sorry. It cries because it is hungry.

Why am I still single? Because I studied four years of theatre arts and still could not see the performance happening in my own apartment.

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