Today's OneWord: Avoided

"I've avoided that man like the plague," griped Sarah as she sat down on the couch with her tall mug of chamomile tea. "He was the embodiment of everything bad for me. I gained too much weight around him. Then I lost too much weight. Then I started smoking, then switched to hard liquor. Another year with him, and maybe I would have been on the street with cocaine dust in my left nostril."

"Was he really that influential?"

"No," said Sarah, shaking her head for emphasis. "He just bullied me into a lot of things. Influential isn't the right word - abusive is."

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