'Alice's Craziness For Chris Watters'

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This young woman’s story also reflects the crazy desire of Alice Kelling for Chris Watters. Alice is crazy and follows Chris everywhere in the hopes of having sex with him. In Alice’s craziness for Chris, she verbally abuses Edie under the mistaken impression that Edie and Chris had sex. An over possessive person, just like Alice, can do a lot of damage to others thinking something that is not true. Chris never loved her the way she thought he did. Chris was never engaged to her like she thought by the ring he had given her. Chris never sexually desired Alice the way she thought. Alice created a fantasy world in her mind where this pilot, who traveled all over the world, would love her and be faithful to her the rest of his life. In this present

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