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August 21, 2003:

It's only after twenty years, and fourteen years of distance, that I'm able to see what my friends saw at the time. The manipulativeness, the petty mean-spiritedness.

This is not to imply lack of sympathy, or to suggest that I feel I was some sort of angel myself. Rather that understanding doesn't come with experience, but from the distance one achieves when one leaves an experience behind, willingly or not.

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