Have you ever?

Have you ever inadvertently learned something?

Something... awful?

Something so mind-boggling that you no longer know up from down?

Have you ever been in possession of information so life-altering that you can't see straight?

That takes your breath away, leaving you shaking and laughing and crying and saying "no, no, no, no, no"?

Have you ever come across something that is such a departure from everything you thought you ever knew about someone that you felt you never really knew that person at all?

That made you question every. single. thing. that person had ever said to you?

That the last X-number of years of your life have been a complete and utter lie?

Have you ever felt like your whole world was flipped upside down, had the shit shaken out of it, then fell down around your feet?

That you wouldn't be able to catch your breath through the body-wracking sobs?

Have you ever been so scared of the answer, that you contemplate not confronting someone with what you've learned?

That *maybe* you could just forget you ever saw it?

Have you ever screwed up the courage enough to ask, only to then have to be brave enough to trust what you're hearing?

To trust your own judgement?

No, me neither.