Talk:What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted/@comment-67.8.161.81-20130214033123/@comment-24.138.170.52-20130218112234

I think Mona has a soul. It is lost and disturbed but it is still there. And Mona clearly is mentally ill. As someone with three diagnosed mental illnesses, I can say that even the simplest of them makes your thought process and ability to reason and think rationally very different from the " normal" persons. No, being ill is NOT an excuse for the horrible things she does, and matter how dreadfully people treat you there is never an excuse to torture and murder. But... I do feel sorry for the girl. She may very well not be able to see that there is a line and that she's gone miles past it. Now, I think that it is absolutely unrealistic that, after all she did, she would simply get a a few months (how long WAS she in Radley?) in a mental health facility than be released back into the same environment as the people she tortured. Especially Spencer and Hanna, she tried to murder them and I have a hard time imagining a doctor or judge being okay with her having such close proximity to the girls.

And I honestly have a hard time seeing as to why they all loved Ali so much in the first place. From what I've seen, she was just as vicious to the people close to her as she was to those she looked down at. Hefty Hanna anyone? But... I can't imagine what it must feel like to have someone be such a massive part of your life one day and than just be gone the next. I can't fathom how painful it must be for them to realize that, no matter what they felt for her, maybe they never "had" Alison to begin with. I think that would be remarkably difficult to move past, no matter if there are more pressing things that should be occupying their thoughts.