Sticks and Stones

I know family quarrels happen, especially around the holidays, and people when drunk and angry say shit they don’t mean. And it takes a lot to make me lose my cool or to hurt me. I didn’t lose my cool. And even though she apologized and took it all back and realized she was wrong to say these things, I keep playing her words in my head over and over and I can’t stop thinking “in vino veritas” and this is what she really feels.