“With Truman I kept up a front,” Gloria wrote years later, “never giving the Tiny Terror a toehold into my oh-so-secret heart.” Her friend Carol had no such compunction, unloading all her divorce frustrations on Truman’s eagerly listening ears. Gloria professed shock at Carol’s lack of caution, but then, divorce will sometimes make people do shocking things. “And Truman, sly puss that he was, lapped it up and wove it into Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” Gloria wrote with some satisfaction.
