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The fortune teller was only wrong about one little detail: nobody but my awesome husband understands why I have so many shoes. There are various competing accounts about exactly how it happened, but in any case, Burroughs came to the reluctant conclusion that at the moment of shooting the pistol, he had become possessed by what he called ‘the Ugly Spirit’, and that he was condemned to spend the rest of his life trying to evade the efforts of the Ugly Spirit to take control of his actions and make him do bad things. It’s clear to me, at any rate, that this was Burroughs’ way of dealing with the crushing guilt he felt about Joan’s death. It doesn’t really fit the category of revenge, but it was satisfying all the same. Over the years, we’ve had a lot of terrible neighbors.
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