“Appalled at his own voice, he wondered why he couldn’t have said he was a social worker or a hospital executive. Would the kids have cared? Why was he spilling his guts instead? Did he think it might make him more interesting in Epstein’s eyes? But what was “interesting” about having been a mental patient? “ – anyway, I was locked up there,” he concluded, and he wondered if Pamela and the others were embarrassed for him.”
