The book opens with a party that, if I can't remember 20 or 30 years ago, a New Year's Eve party. You write nearly two decades later, you would now cross the street to avoid some of the people who are at my NYE party. They in turn would not only refuse to enter my house, they would be embarrassed to admit they had ever been there. There is a enormously challenging and powerful personal component to this transition that you're talking about.