Wax Rosebuds and Plastic Peaches- Another MUST read...

Before even entering into the text of the book, the opening quotation is enough to convince the reader that Dr. Hare knows where he's going with this....

"Good people are rarely suspicious: they cannot imagine others doing the things they themselves are incapable of doing; usually they accept the undramatic solution as the correct one, and let matters rest there. Then too, the normal are inclined to visualize the [psychopath] as one who's as monstrous in appearance as he is in mind, which is about as far from the truth as one can could well get...These monsters of real life usually looked and behaved in a more normal manner than their actually normal brothers and sisters; they presented a more convincing picture of virtue than virtue presented of itself--just as the wax rosebud or the plastic peach seemed more perfect to the eye, more what the mind thought a rosebud or a peach should be, than the imperfect original from which it had been modelled. -- William March, The Bad Seed"

...the eye contact he made with me was so direct and intense that I wondered if I had ever really looked anyone in the eye before..."

This is how he got me. This is how he got his ex-wife, my friend. This is how he is luring her...his new victim. He will suck the soul from her and leave her remains with the same stare and no remorse. Should I warn her? Yes, but she wouldn't believe me and if I am to become whole I must accept that he will continue to victimize and destroy. I can either become whole or I can spend my days trying to prevent him from doing that which he does by nature and by design.

I choose the former... God help her and all who follow her.