In Search of His Own Story

"The world that I've constructed in my own head where I'm better than everyone is so much better for me. I'm very bad at getting outside of myself."

This is not a story about drug addiction.

I sent a text to Ian Dunlavy at one p.m. to confirm our phone interview at two. He confirmed, and I replied with a cheeky, "Cool. Start digging into your soul; I'll call you in an hour."

For an hour, he began to plan what he would say, picture the conversation in his head, run through scenarios of what I...