Along with the idea of romantic love, she was introduced to another--physical beauty. Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought. Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion.

“See? See what you can do? Never mind you can’t tell one letter from another, ne…”

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly …”

“God take what He would," she said. And He did, and He did, and He did and then …”

“If happiness is anticipation with certainty, we were happy.”