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Annie Wilson:
[to Silver] Hey, cool tattoo. What does it mean?

Erin Silver:
It's the Chinese symbol for friendship 'cause you know, friends are cool.

Annie Wilson:
Naomi has the same one.

Erin Silver:
Yeah. All right, in 8th grade, my dad had an affair with my mom's best friend. I was... God, I was so angry you know, so unbelievably scared she'd find out, you know and she'd get a divorce or start drinking again. So, I... I didn't tell anybody, I kept it a secret, but then it started eating away at me, and I just... I had to tell someone. So I told my friend, Naomi. She promised me that she wouldn't tell anyone, so she told everyone.

Annie Wilson:
Why would she do that?

Erin Silver:
Because she needs to know more than anyone else. Because it gives her power to tear people down. So, my mom found out. She confronted my dad and everything that I prayed wouldn't happen happened. So now it's my greatest pleasure to make her pay for it.