Affair with the Rockstar

and made things startlingly clear: is it more

by someone wit

all want the other person to love us back exactly th

out. Both people may be in love, but it always

to choose, wh

and completely, even if they

mpletely, even if you don’t fee

he answer when I h

later that no… I didn’t

ENT

Stone editor in his office o

ought I was there to interview for some lowly sta

staff position. As desperate as I was,

on. It was

p with curly hair around the sides, and he wore black, plastic-frame hipster glasses

e meet. Good to put a face w

Nice to me

egree from Sy

es

d you gr

on a polite smile.

emailed me. Not bad.

at… but

ttle bit. I’m a bit o

n an editor at Rolling Stone says your st

orking on building

There was something I especially liked, a short st

idn’t include th

internet. I liked it. Had a distinctive v

little. “Um

good writer. It hasn’t come out yet, but you have a lot of potential.

art r

be something better than

e you… are you o

to give you a shot at a feature

what she posted on her wall. She moved to New York City a couple of years before I did. When I announced on Facebook I was moving, too, she told me to look her up. That’s how we rekindle

at a feature article. “No, she was

said you might not be that

would have scrubb

alking ‘feat

happy with t

A

wspapers. You know, the kind mostly devoted to club ads listing

Huffington Post had turned me do

ven give my

an editor at Rolling Ston

his. Undercover hooker? ‘Day in the life of a sewa

aughed, a little too giddily. “I mean

d back in

e you once dat

very individual muscle strain

h

God, no

ng but