"In short: Gilbert left her husband and proclaimed her love for Rayya, who was her friend and hairdresser, and the two of them spent a bunch of Gilbert's money trying to make the most of the limited time they had left together, which involved lots of drugs and alcohol, and unsurprisingly didn't turn out that well, leading Gilbert to at one point consider murdering Rayya. Literally."
"Because part of the joy of consuming any piece of media is chatting about it, I needed someone to talk to. I wondered, "Who else would be into this?" and knew immediately: Emily McCombs. Previously a Care and Feeding columnist for Slate, Emily has been editing women's personal essays and confessional writing about all kinds of messy and ridiculous and vulnerable and painful stuff for 15-plus years."
A reader with an appetite for emotionally charged personal narratives became engrossed by a shocking account of choices made after a cancer diagnosis. The central relationship involved leaving a marriage, professing love for a friend and hairdresser, and spending substantial money to maximize limited time together. The partnership included extensive drug and alcohol use, escalating dysfunction, and a moment when one partner contemplated murdering the other. The partner eventually died, and the surviving partner entered recovery for sex and love addiction. The surviving partner later reflects that addiction shaped much of the relationship. The reader sought someone experienced in confessional women's narratives to talk through the moral and emotional complexities.
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