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Everyone in her family saw it coming. Especially her Aunt Beverly, who had the most blunt reaction: "Honey, just don't. Don't!" But Becky couldn't hear a thing from anyone, you know how that goes. You love someone, what are you really doing? You are maybe loving your own sunlight? That can blind you. He had it stacked up. Handsome. Successful, whatever it was he said he did. Didn't constantly talk about himself. Becky was basking in something, doesn't mean something good. Her family was quiet, then concerned, then alarmed. They all saw somebody else. A phony. Top to bottom. Take away the flashy car, you have left a slick talker. Charm to the horizon of your vanity, he knew how to pivot the attention to you. But, it wasn't real. His smile, conniving.

Two months and almost twenty-five thousand dollars later, he vanished. Becky has a ton of money, fortunately. That isn't the problem, or the solution.