East Village, she was thankful to be alone. All summer she went to movies by herself, sometimes as many as three a day. She bought TV Guide every week and read it from cover to cover, planning her nights around her favorite shows. She began to subsist on a diet of raita and Triscuits. She grew thinner than she’d ever been in her life, so that in the few pictures taken of her in that period her face is faintly unrecognizable.
She spent summer alone
