Mark Phillips' Pages: Workbook: 1/23/11: She often stressed that she found me socially awkward.

Jacob Lawrence, "The Lovers," 1946 — Jacob Lawrence, *The Lovers* (1946)

January 23, 2011:

She often stressed that she found me socially awkward.

Yet my journal emphasizes frequent conversations with mutual friends who were uncomfortable with her. It was a drumbeat: someone else tells me in confidence that they find her difficult, or capricious, or odd.

What did she need from me that I was unable to provide?