He looks placidly on. Did people withdraw from you until you were exonerated?
"Oh, it didn't stop then. I was not exonerated in the public press. They just said, 'He got away with it.' There's still a division."
Melissa clears her throat. "There's still a lingering … in fact, over the years, I have gotten a few little pieces of mail saying, 'How can you possibly associate yourself with Carl?'"
Andre had said Ana went to bed alone and, when he went into the room later, the window was open and she wasn't there. But the prosecution cast him as a woman-hater, alleging that his wife fell from the window after an argument that came about because she had been threatening to divorce him after multiple infidelities. This was particularly unfair, he says, because "I've always considered myself a feminist. Like most men, I'm attracted to women; but I like women, which most men don't. They prefer to go off to the bar and be with the guys."
"When we first got together," says Melissa, "every night we went out, it was Carl and me and all these women. It was rare we had a male friend."
Those who knew him stayed loyal, but Andre also lost friends. "Not close, but acquaintances wouldn't speak to me, would avoid me and so forth."
Then the Guerrilla Girls, the feminist art-activist group, went around town putting up posters of OJ Simpson and Andre with "Wanted" written across the top. How do you deal with something like that?
"Well, I'm a rather phlegmatic person. Rather stoic. I learned well as a child, when I would sometimes be bullied. I was a fat child. Not athletic. Teacher's pet and this kind of thing, and I would get roughed up sometimes. And I learned not to fight back. That baffled people. Because I would just say, 'No, no, no, I don't provoke.' Like Spencer Tracy in Bad Day at Black Rock."
There is a pause. I wonder at you not moving apartments, I say. "Everybody wonders that," says Andre. "Well, look at the view."
"Carl doesn't like change," says Melissa. "And honestly – because I've thought long and hard about this – I think if he had moved, it would have been seen as an admission of guilt."
"I didn't think of it that way," he says. "I just liked living here.
He looks placidly on. Did people withdraw from you until you were exonerated?"Oh, it didn't stop then. I was not exonerated in the public press. They just said, 'He got away with it.' There's still a division."Melissa clears her throat. "There's still a lingering … in fact, over the years, I have gotten a few little pieces of mail saying, 'How can you possibly associate yourself with Carl?'"Andre had said Ana went to bed alone and, when he went into the room later, the window was open and she wasn't there. But the prosecution cast him as a woman-hater, alleging that his wife fell from the window after an argument that came about because she had been threatening to divorce him after multiple infidelities. This was particularly unfair, he says, because "I've always considered myself a feminist. Like most men, I'm attracted to women; but I like women, which most men don't. They prefer to go off to the bar and be with the guys.""When we first got together," says Melissa, "every night we went out, it was Carl and me and all these women. It was rare we had a male friend."Those who knew him stayed loyal, but Andre also lost friends. "Not close, but acquaintances wouldn't speak to me, would avoid me and so forth."Then the Guerrilla Girls, the feminist art-activist group, went around town putting up posters of OJ Simpson and Andre with "Wanted" written across the top. How do you deal with something like that?"Well, I'm a rather phlegmatic person. Rather stoic. I learned well as a child, when I would sometimes be bullied. I was a fat child. Not athletic. Teacher's pet and this kind of thing, and I would get roughed up sometimes. And I learned not to fight back. That baffled people. Because I would just say, 'No, no, no, I don't provoke.' Like Spencer Tracy in Bad Day at Black Rock."There is a pause. I wonder at you not moving apartments, I say. "Everybody wonders that," says Andre. "Well, look at the view.""Carl doesn't like change," says Melissa. "And honestly – because I've thought long and hard about this – I think if he had moved, it would have been seen as an admission of guilt.""I didn't think of it that way," he says. "I just liked living here.
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