“Well, think again. The fact is, I learned to cook out of self-defense. One thing I discovered about John was that his mother taught him not to talk with food in his mouth. And during those brief moments when he couldn’t speak, I started to notice the other people he’d somehow tricked into putting up with him. Not just putting up with him, but actually enjoying being around him. I noticed their quality. And I asked myself, if they were all like that, of quality, good people, the best people I’ve ever known, then what was I doing there? The only answer I could come up with was that for some
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