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“Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist. We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?�
“About love. About how we often mistake love for fireworks—for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It’s boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm—and constant. I imagine you do give Kathy love—in the true sense of the word. Whether or not she is capable of giving it back to you is another question.�
This was the first time I came face-to-face with Alicia Berenson.
A small child—with the power of life and death at his fingertips. “I don’t want to die,� he said.
I remained silent. How could I talk? Gabriel had sentenced me to death. The dead don’t talk.
