Chapter Three
An Elemental Truth
Some lapses in good behavior are simply accidental, unconscious and unintended. Some are as deliberate as they are manipulative. Maybe I was calling him out; perhaps I was just too smitten or too scared to know what I actually wanted. I’m still not sure why I was twenty-eight minutes late for our 3rd date. I could have attributed it to the traffic, which was a b***h that night, or a queasy stomach, which was actually quite true, or the rotten day I’d had, having learned that I was just one of five excellent prospects being considered by Halsey Lewis. Same was pretty much true of the other major ad firms that had my resume for review. There were no guarantees for a job at the end of the month. All these circumstances might have made great excuses for being
