Friendship that fights totalitarianism

A work-in-progress excerpt

I am on to the next chapter of my very much in-progress book, but I thought — given what we’ve been going through as a country — a little sliver of the first draft of the first chapter might be a good read. This is out of the middle of the chapter, and is likely to change a lot before the book is turned in next spring (let alone published some time in t…