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by Newsweek
We were talking together and I just
looked at him and said something like, "You seem so lonely. Do you
have any friends?" And he said, "I am lonely, and I don't have any
friends." And then I talked to him about how difficult it is when
you're feeling really sad, and there's nobody there for you, and that I
hoped that would be something for him that would change. I tried
to find out more about his family. He was very, very guarded about
that. He was actually quite arrogant, and could be quite
obnoxious, and he was also deeply, it seemed, insecure. So there's
often that combination in people who are very troubled, and he had it to
an extreme degree, I think.
... I tried to make that happen as
much as I could, and I even called over to counseling seeing if I could
require it, but they said that was not possible. And they advised me to
try to just take him over physically myself. So every time we met,
I would say, "Okay, today will you come over with me to counseling and
we'll talk?" And he'd always refuse to do that. I mean, I
wish I could have lifted him up bodily and taken him. I would have
done it if I could. That's a question I'll probably ask myself for
the rest of my life: "What else could I have done? Could I
have done more?" I think probably all of us could have done more
in some ways, and so I think it's a fair question. And all I can
say really is that there will be no one who will be asking that question
of me more than I will be.
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