Dev’s not going to do the commercial. On some level, I always knew that. I can keep after him to try, we can try different approaches, but I would have to be at my most persuasive to get him to do it, and I’m not. In fact, I didn’t even try that hard. I didn’t go all out, like Hal told me to. I saw the determination behind his golden eyes and I thought, if I take it to that extreme, then there’s only two places it can go: he’ll say no and I’ll be crushed, or he’ll say yes and he’ll resent me. So I backed down. Now I need to think of what to tell Brian, as I take our mingled clothes and toss them into the washer in the basement. He’s invested in this campaign as much as I am, and having gotten him on my side, I can’t just let him go. But if I can get some info on Families United, maybe go back to them with a definite connection to the suicide…that could be something that could get out to the news. It might not help college students feel better about themselves (I feel a pang at that), but at least it could hamper some people from making them feel worse.
