This, as much as her longing for concealment, fed her empathy with Hollywood's misfits, to whom she offered simple, common kindness: Montgomery Clift, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Michael Jackson, the homosexuals-in-hiding and would-be children whose secrets she heard and kept.

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If prosecutors had been able to charge Ravi with shiftiness and bad faith if the criminal law exactly reflected common moral judgments about kindness and reliability then to convict him would be easy.

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