Nico—her voice pained—sings Jackson Browne’s “These Days.” I hear her sing the haunting lyric: “Don’t confront me with my failures. I have not forgotten them.” I have to remind myself that if Nic’s relapses horrify me, it’s worse for him. I suffer, Vicki suffers, Karen suffers, Jasper and Daisy suffer, my parents suffer, Karen’s suffer, others who love Nic suffer, but he suffers more. “Don’t confront me with my failures. I have not forgotten them.”
