After five memos and a century and a half, the Committee on Nature and Nurture finally replied. Then I went to the hearing in person. The two are not the same report — and the gap between them is the whole finale.
I have been present for all of it — every hearing, every service record, every panel of this publication. Someone has finally asked the control group to comment. A field report from the one instrument in the house that was never adjusted.
Cancer gathers a room around the dying. Addiction dies alone. On installed shame, addiction as adaptation — and the coincidence that ended my gambling.