Great interview with New York's former Governor, Eliot Spitzer, over at Vanity Fair.  Definitely worth the read.  The discussion centers around "questions of sin, survival, and second acts."

We strolled to a bench where we lunched in what he called “our own little corner of Paris,” facing the golden sculpture of General Sherman on his horse. “Do you believe there are second acts in American life?,” I asked.

“There are, but they’re rarely repeats of the first. It’s a question of what you do when you come back on for the second act.”

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When we returned to his office, he showed me a framed picture of his serene country home, as well as photographs of his family in happier days, displayed on a shelf. There was a single picture of his swearing-in ceremony in Albany on January 1, 2007, when he became governor, his wife by his side.

“Do you think the scandal will ever go away?,” I asked.

“No. My obituary’s written,” he replied with shocking finality. “And that is a very hard thing to live with.”

When he turned away, I could see he was in tears.

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