Building Authentic Relationships
After Anatole's plot, Natasha is not a villain and not a child. She is a person who wanted intensity and found a machine designed to produce it. Shame, broken promises, the gap between the girl at the ball and the girl who nearly wrecked two families: Tolstoy will not let the recovery be a slogan. It starts as honest reckoning.
Key Insight
Confusion is not the same as malice, and it still costs. Repair begins when you stop decorating the mistake and look at what you almost became.
