How cruel is it to want something you can never have?
That’s exactly what meeting Elliot Dufort was like.
A random encounter on a rainy New York morning threw me into a constant struggle between desire and reality. A yearning that could never be fulfilled, for one bite of the forbidden fruit would lead to my downfall.
What felt like a slow descent into a realm of love and passion turned out to be a crash, so intense it shattered the lies I called a life.
At the age of thirty-three, I’d long ...