Such a Clever Girl

Epigraph

. . . I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive

night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things

we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed,

forget who we were.

—Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem