Love and War

I recently gave a talk at the East Hampton, Connecticut, Public Library on Love and War, and I opened with a short video from some of my interviews. Just one thing I left out of the talk. In the video, Forrest Dixon says that when he returned from Germany after nearly three years abroad, his daughter, who was an infant when he left, told him to go back to Germany, because she was sleeping in the bed with her mother and didn’t take kindly to being banished to her own room. What I forgot to tell the audience was that I later asked Forrest how he got his daughter to accept him, and he said it was when they were downtown and she saw a sweater she wanted, and he bought it for her.