The text wasn’t completely unexpected. Still, I was shocked.
Last year, a writer named Cathy Alter asked to do a profile of me for Washingtonian magazine. Cathy and I have been friendly for more than three decades, and I said yes. Of course, I suspected the topic would be about my involvement in the Brett Kavanaugh nomination circus. Yet Cathy surprised me. We met for the first time at Georgetown University, and she asked me non-political questions - what frightened me, what I believed in, my favorite things in life. Human interest topics. Of course, I was also asked about Christine Blasey Ford, the woman who in 2018 accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault - and said I was in the room when it happened. Still, Cathy won me over a little bit. We met two more times, and I drove her around the places in Maryland where I grew up. She interviewed several of my oldest and closest friends. More than once, she said that she has known for decades that while I’m a flawed person, I’m also a kind and conscientious one.
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