Becoming

to do it on the firm’s expense account. As Barack’s adviser, I was meant to act as a social conduit m ...

O victories, and this seemed to encourage him. He was in law school, he explained, because grassroots organizing ...

desk with a smile. “Thanks,” I said, taking the file. “Looking forward to it.” After he left, I tuck ...

style, Barack was a catch. He was good-looking, poised, and successful. He was athletic, interesting, and kind. ...

W that it didn’t translate over drinks. Next time happy hour rolled around, I left him at the office ...

fight to be put up, no finer point to be argued. Smoking was the one topic where Barack’s logic seemed to le ...

that his experience with Sidley & Austin was bright and positive. That was the whole poi ...

especially when instructed to hurry. I, on the other hand, power walked even during my leisure hours an ...

good player when I saw one, and Barack quickly passed the test. He played an athletic, artf ...

loosen and unfold. He was looking at me curiously, with the trace of a smile. “Can I kiss you?” he asked ...

Becoming Us ...

A 9 s soon as I allowed myself to feel anything for Barack, the feelings came rushing—a to ...

to cover. He kept tabs on the latest book reviews, the American League standings, and what the Sout ...

even been busted the very first night we’d been out in public as a couple, shortly after our first ...

I He’d watched me dismiss Kevin the college football player as soon as I’d seen him in a furr ...

On a humid evening, I went with him as he did a favor for an old friend. One of his former community-or ...

process work, if not always smoothly, in the Altgeld Gardens public-housing project, where a grou ...

B neighborhood—to look ahead and overcome. And I had. I’d scored myself two Ivy League degrees. I had a ...

whether I made partner or not. Having been through law school myself, I also knew how busy ...

taken to sweating out my office frustrations at after-work aerobics. As months passed, our feelings stay ...