I didn’t shop anything out – I got this from a ‘best of’ list. Thanks for the context!
LillyPip
Yeah. He lived a long time only to be hauled up like that. :(
Looks like Joel Pashcow (looks like the guy in the photo with Epstein):
Knowing these predators, worse.
Right up there with ‘wonderful secrets’.
I think the meaning is far worse and more twisted than that – such that I don’t want to say what I think they mean other than ‘broken in’.
Right, because it’s totally normal to print a giant novelty check, take a group photo, then commemorate it in an album with a caption saying you brokered and sold a girl. Like, who among us hasn’t done this?
Dr Who, series 2005 S1E2.
Just to give you more impetus to read this, here’s the first page (sorry about the lighting):

No worries! I’ve been trying to understand why people who are completely normal fall for these things from a sociological and interpersonal perspective for years, because they’re not different from us. It’s the nuance that matters, and I think that book was both enlightening and neutral.
I’ve been waiting my whole life for this.

Your other left.