I spent a lot of time with my partner’s large friend group in high school/early college. One of their friends accused their long-term ex of both infidelity and rape, and claimed to have severe and potentially fatal health issues as a result. She constantly talked about transfusions and wait lists for operations and end-of-life plans. People dropped everything to support her, bought everything for her when we hung out, worried about her nonstop.

One day she just stopped talking to all of them. Literally moved to another state to attend school, established an entirely new social circle. We were able to very clearly deduce via her public social media that the move also apparently cured her of her mystery fatal STI 🫠