I Walked Into A Jewelry Shop To Sell My Mother’s Necklace Until The Jeweler Turned Pale

and who had, by Charles’s own account, the kind of quality that people call good that is not the same thing as refined or connected or strategically useful, but is its own distinct and genuine thing.

Charles had forbidden the relationship. He said this plainly, without attempting to soften it or reframe it, which I noted, because people with power often continue reading …