Three people can describe the same year and sound like they lived on different planets.
One says it was friendship that never promised exclusivity.
One says it was love interrupted by bad timing.
One says it was betrayal they should have seen coming.
Each version contains real scenes.
Each version omits scenes the others consider central.
None of the three is necessarily lying in the cartoon sense.
They may be reporting truthfully from the information they had, the stories they told themselves, and the silence they mistook for agreement.
Love triangles generate this fracture often.
So do slow entanglements that never got a name.
This article will not crown a hero or a villain.
