Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master G
Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.