It may not be very liberated of me, but I wanted to take care of Libby in every way—emotionally, physically, and financially. Part of what made me fall in love with her was that she “just knew” I was destined for greatness. She built me up. She made me feel invincible. Even when things started to go south, she never lost faith. She was like a champion athlete who assumes she can’t lose because she never has. Failure was never part of her lexicon, so it didn’t seem possible to her. And so it became impossible to me.
