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Originally Posted by Bryter Layter
(Post 2677949)
I read a passage where this Jo woman apparently told Rachel that she couldn't explain why, but she thought Richey was in love with Nicky, but this speculation all seemed to arise from how he acted at Nicky's wedding which I don't think Jo was at (his alleged actions sounded more like he was jealous he wasn't in a serious relationship than anything else). What's being implied here? Richey's problems are Wire's fault because he couldn't love him like that? Why is this even relevant? If Richey did feel that way, he wasn't open about it so why is this speculation even being made public?
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Jo said this to Rachel after Richey went missing, when exactly is not clear (frequently the case). The wedding anecdote is separate but related I guess. Honestly for me this is like having had a lifelong passionately held theory everyone dismissed as flat earth, but then NASA confirms it - only now you’re not sure you can trust NASA?! This is the only mention this idea is given and considering the implications of it I’m amazed - that they mentioned it at all, sure, but then so passingly. The authors are too eager to push the Jo angle.
They also neglect to mention his first (traumatic) sexual experience, having gotten ex girlfriends to open up about everything prior to that, and dismiss his groupie-ing as ‘occasional dalliances’. He really wanted to be with Jo, look at all this proof!... which suggests he didn’t at all. It’s like this constantly. They try to make Nicky look bad and Jo perfect, and end up pointing to all the conclusions they don’t want you to come to by trying to twist things. This, I hasten to make clear, is my reading and may not be others’, for sure. But I ain’t picking up what’s not there, you know? I guess people will see for themselves (unless the book goes under). I think it’s obvious without having anything in mind, but.
Jo is treated as the oracle in this book, what she says is fact even though the latest her contributions are dated (they’re letters or recalled conversations) is 1998, I think. When she would have been 23. We have to keep how young she was in mind, and that she was dealing with trauma, was obviously biased, etc. That said, if she is, as the book keeps insisting, ‘the closest person to Richey’ and his confidante, the conclusion she came to is pretty something, yet it’s given basically no screen time. Instead we hear about the entire two weeks her and Richey were officially together this one time, her turning down his proposal and him basically shrugging and leaving, etc. Also it’s casually mentioned that they knew each other for four years, so they met when she was 15. Make of that what you will.
They don’t paint this as Nicky’s big wrong-doing, anyway, because that would involve taking it seriously. It’s more his entire character/existence they have a problem with.
Regardless of anything, as you say, if Richey had such feelings, he did NOT want them made public. That’s always been my concern with voicing such opinions, but team Withdrawn Traces don’t seem to give a shit. So now it’s out there. As are tonnes of other things that shouldn’t be.