How do you explain love? We were just in it, that’s all. Soon after the wedding, she asked me to move in with her and I did, although I kept the little flat across town for the first few months just in case she kicked me out. We stayed together for five years, and by the time it was over, she had, with my blessing, changed my life beyond recognition. I wanted her to, and I was and still am happy and grateful that she did. She insisted I learn to drive and made me get a license as well as a car. Right away she told me that she didn’t want to have a boyfriend who was a lush. So for a while when I was around her, quite a lot since we lived together, I didn’t get drunk. She changed the way I ate, introduced me to fresh fruit and, saints preserve us, muesli. We slept during the nighttime and got up in the morning—this was a staggering concept for someone who hadn’t lived like this since his early years of high school. We went to movies and the theater and restaurants and had friends whom we hadn’t met in bars!
What do You think about American On Purpose (2009)?
