@DefunctGames gdi bro this is amazing (the yearbook pic and answering every question), thank you again for your openness and insight. I almost feel apologetic and undeserving.. I recognize that this may be entertainment for me, but it's real life for you and it sounds like a lot of this are painful or sad memories
I bounced around from thread to thread until I discovered this one, and stayed in it partly for Lucas' antics but a lot for the quality of comments here. Though its armchair/amateur psychobehavioral analysis and speculation, I feel like its done so well here.. really thought provoking and funny and I love reading them.. So it's crazy that you join us to provide us with a ton of missing details we've been curious about or attempts to answer questions based on what you know about him (your speculations lend just as much valuable insight into him).. in composed, very well written responses.. you've added such an emotive layer to this whole thing
I had a couple more questions that you're free to ignore or skip
- when the Starbucks thing happened, were you surprised? Was his brother? I imagine the dynamic of your friendship with him is that you guys avoid talking about Lucas (understandably)
- would you be able to expand a bit more on why you don't feel that Myrna is an enabler, other than her sending him to his dad to deal with, and moving far away from him? I guess the speculation that Myrna is an enabler comes from that it seems she's made excuses for his behavior, with implications that his potential danger to little girls would be blamed on his mental illness
- if you were to talk to him face to face now, do you think he'd react to you negatively or positively? Do you think if you asked him how he's doing/been doing, he'd have a spin on things or he'd unload all his misery? Like if you asked him how he planned to provide for his wife and children, would he have a realistic answer? Previous attempts at asking this question always resulted with him screaming incoherently or providing very unrealistic answers (living off what the government would provide him, and his assertions that babies are not very expensive)
- would you know why he is always challenging Christians to prove their 'love'.. often putting out challenges to Christian girls to date him, in order to prove their devotion to Christianity and its teachings. It doesn't sound like he grew up in a religious household. Is it similar to the telomere thing, it's just another way to try to rationalize his inappropriate desire to get with young girls at almost middle age?
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Have you ever considered writing a book on this? Your experience and your thoughts about what happened to Lucas, from the information gleaned from this forum, news articles about him, and his writings he's put out after your friendship ended.. a general book about the human psyche and mental illness