And here’s the moment when a sane person could have healed the situation. It would be very easy to separate all of this. It would probably have been a good idea to put some space between the “We Are Not Alone in the Universe” talk and the “I Want to Grab Power and Do Good with It” talk and the “I Am Terrified of Our Relationship” talk. But I wanted to turn the fight into a breakup—the idea of “us” couldn’t compete with the idea of “April May”—so I burned it all down.
