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...chilled with some of the girls across the hall, and laughed with the boys next door. We bounced bagels in the stairway, had random conversations till late in the night, and threw our own alcohol-free mini-dance parties, where we danced however we wanted and giggled about it afterward...
Goodwin first mentioned this incident, which her attorneys called a “humiliating experience,” during cross-examination, claiming that she had just remembered it at that moment and recalled crying in the parking lot afterward...
...Nothing could have stood in the way of my getting rid of it, differentiating myself from it--from the toxic bulk that had seemed so like a mother's nurture in the beginning--because if it remained within me, I knew that my life would be snuffed out. Afterward I would collapse into bed and sink into a numbed sleep. Tomorrow will be different. It never was. What an illusion that there were no consequences to be paid! It was years before I allowed myself to acknowledge the addictive, damaging nature of what I was doing. Like alcoholism, anorexia...
...mistake, and I have paid and continue to pay a heavy price for it. A traveling companion, someone with a cooler head, would have kept me from taking that terrible seat. I would have known two minutes before sitting down what I didn't realize until two minutes afterward. That two-minute lapse of sanity will haunt me until I die. But the gun was inactive, there were no planes overhead--I simply wasn't thinking about what I was doing, only about what I was feeling--innocent of what the photo implies. Yet the photo exists, delivering its message...
...that the film they were going to see would spark a debate. Michel, a 45-year-old Parisian teacher and avid film buff, takes in up to three movies a week and prefers the kind of challenging art-house fare that can be enjoyed as much during the discussion afterward as in the theater. She had chosen Polissons et Galipettes, a compilation of vintage French blue movies. Art or pornography? That's a question neither Michel nor her boyfriend had the opportunity to discuss that August evening in 2002 because Michel, who suffers from brittle-bone disease and gets around...