Overheard
“Something strange happened during
[Governor of South Carolina, Mark] Sanford’s confession.
He broke the formula. He got lost. He went too deep.
He exposed his soul. He got all weird and human on us.
His life had become an awful train wreck
happening in front of the whole country,
and it didn’t seem like he had any idea
of how it was going to end up
and he didn’t care who knew it.
Instead of a press conference,
we had been carried into
some Eternal Bedroom of Misery
that most of us have been in
at one time or another,
that room where marriages
and love affairs
– all alike, all different –
come to a painful end.
Surreal, jagged emotional shards
flew through the air. …
It was unscripted.
It was so intimate
it was almost unwatchable.”
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