How do you ever really have closure with someone you thought was your friend?

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I recently ended a friendship of twenty-five years. It is a long story and I have included the discussion links for anyone that didn't read this before or that may not remember it. DUH!!!! 1. http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/1973900.aspx [4 months ago] 2. http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2024913.aspx [2 months ago] 3. http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2042403.aspx [1 month ago] 4. http://www.mylot.com/w/discussions/2048250.aspx [1 month ago] I prize friendships. They are of the utmost importance to me. I had two very good and long time friendships about a month ago. Now I only have one. I still think this whole thing is so bizarre and hurtful and rediculous and strange. I will never fully understand it and there fore I will never fully have closure. I cannot believe she would betray me like this. Tonight I was watching a movie where two men were having to say goodbye and it touched me. [Dances With Wolves] It brought the tears I hadn't until now been able to bring to the surface. Until now there was just anger and disbelief. She and I had talked in depth over the years about our positions on men, self-respect, treatment of others, relationships, friendship, trust, and all the things that go into a really good well rounded friendship. There were times I wondered about things. She sometimes was secretive and not real forth coming. I respected those times and I didn't push. Now I wish I had. I wonder if the times I was not too sure she was telling the truth or when she by passed things and I wondered if she perhaps had some deep rooted problems she wouldn't or couldn't talk about if that wasn't truly the case. Anyway, soon after all this with that guy came down I get an email from him making reference to something my supposedly great friend had just told him. Something very negative,hurtful and untrue. I immediately emailed her and asked her if she had infact talked to him and if so what had been said. She emailed me back and would not tell me what had been said between the two of them and went into a tyraid about how badly I had acted in all this. Now she had earlier been kidding around with me about the revenge I had gotten on him. And, get a load of this, she even went so far as to accuse me of stealing from her when I had stayed with her recently. I cannot even begin to tell you how shocked, hurt and dumbfounded I was. After thinking about it for awhile and getting several emails from her threatening to file papers with the authorities if I didn't get the things she accused me of stealing back to her. [#4 above explains this.]I was so hurt and angry about my friend accusing me of theft while living in her home. I was so shccked!!!! I ended the friendship because I will not be falsely accused or treated in this manner by anyone, especially not by her. A friendship I prized up until then and had for so many years. Now I wonder how real she had been. How often the questionable things had been lies and that she was demented all along. The hard thing is I will never know. Did she really think I took something? Did she want to win his approval so badly that she lied to him to make her look like the victim and me the louse? All this having come down at the same time. He and I breaking up, her accusing me, and them having talked to him and her refusing to tell me what was said. So, my question is did I just enter the Twilight Zone or what? There are so many questions I will never have answered. I know I didn't steal anything from her and I am relatively sure she knows that. So why in the world would she do this? He wasn't her type. The only thing she even liked about him was his photography. How do you ever really have closure with someone you thought was your friend?