Betrayal

Odd that there seems to be no single noun in English for the betrayed one.  "Dupe"? "Victim"?  "Sucker"?  "Mark"?  None of these, necessarily.  And unless it's a man and it's about sex, not the nasty-sounding "Cuckold."  Nothing that means, solely, the betrayee, which isn't a word.

The perps get, at least, "betrayer" and "traitor".  But those on the receiving end appear to have no single, dignified name.

You can be an avenger.  You can, I am given to understand, be a forgiver.  And you can move on.

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And so we play on... with abstractions, words that are only the skins of meaning, ellipses, the coding of the emotions below.  That play and coding are what this typing - and shit, that really is all it is - is about.