Michael had an energy and a presence, and that week he was fully allowing me into his world, into his mind. I knew he didn’t do that very much. I don’t think he ever did, actually, until we started talking. He knew that I understood him, and we really connected because I didn’t judge him. I completely got who he was and why he thought the shit that he thought. We had come from, and were now in, similar circumstances. Everything about our lives was so incredibly abnormal. There was no reason why we shouldn’t connect.
