This is someone I always knew in my heart was a fake friend. Loeta only rode with me and offered to haul my horse because she needed a riding partner. She invited herself to ride with me and another former friend, Kendra at Galisteo Preserve 3 years ago and then kept inviting herself to all future riding events I organized. She never once wanted to hang out with me or talk with me outside of riding and she never hung out with me if there were other people on a ride. I knew what kind of person she was after our mutual friend, Colleen was asked to resign from her horse rescue business a few years earlier, due to questionable behavior and activity. Loeta and Colleen were supposed to be best friends, yet after Colleen was removed from WNCR, I often overheard Loeta speaking negatively about Colleen about her involvement at WNCR. Loeta had become the horse rescue's director and she and her husband also helped manage the horse rescue's thrift store, where I had volunteered for a year. It made me sick to hear Loeta badmouth and gossip about Colleen with other people that came into the thrift store.
Talk about a very two-faced person. I should have known better than to include Loeta into my life. But she always seemed to be everywhere there was an opportunity for her, so it was impossible to exclude her anyway.
But ironically, Loeta also seemed to be using Colleen. She was boarding her horses at Colleen's horse boarding facility and also seemed to be using her to get included in any riding events that Colleen planned. When Colleen offered me a lifetime membership to 4 Winds Equestrian Center for the use of any photos I took for her of her facility or riding events, Loeta seemed upset, especially since Colleen had raised Loeta's boarding and membership fees, and yet Colleen and Loeta were supposed to be best friends.
When Loeta placed her loving husband into a nursing home, I found it interesting how she spent more and more time riding with a fellow named Cory, who was married to a mutual friend named Christine. Loeta even started keeping one of her horses at Cory and Christine's house. It was a common sight to see Cory and Loeta together. So, it didn't take long for Christine and Cory to end up divorced with Christine even moving out of state. Afterwards, Loeta became even more involved in Cory's life, house and pet-sitting for him and taking care of both of their horses. In fact, after Christine was out of the picture, it was rare to ever see Loeta unless Cory was with her, all while her husband lived in a nursing home.
So, I shouldn't have been surprised to see Cory and Loeta together when I rode at Fourth of July Canyon in the Summer of 2014. And I shouldn't have been surprised when she asked me not to take photos of her and Cory together out on the trail. And I shouldn't have been surprised that the two of them rode far behind everyone, out of sight, and keeping to themselves. And I shouldn't have been surprised when she contacted me after I wrote my blog post about that Fourth of July Canyon ride, and she told me I needed to remove her and Cory's names from my blog. And I shouldn't have been surprised when she threatened me with a charge of defamation of character for telling the truth about what I experienced that day. And I shouldn't have been surprised that she didn't support me or stand behind me when she saw how badly Paula had treated me or when Paula had her immature outburst while at Fourth of July Canyon.
Of course, in my defense, I had naively believed that Loeta was a real friend. But that was just wishful thinking on my part, because I knew already what an opportunistic, two-faced person she was, long before she stabbed me in the back at the end. So, I have only myself to blame for that unfortunate mistake.
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