Education

“I don’t need a psychology degree,” I protest. Just my luck that Genet’s using me to satisfy his unfulfilled yearning for progeny, not trying to fuck me.
“You need years of intensive therapy,” he informs me benignly. “This is the next best thing.”
*
Half a decade later I know he was right. Genet rebuilt me into a whole, vaguely sane person.
Genet also taught me this: “Look through the subject’s eyes. Speak in his voice. Don’t become him – but fill the inside of his skin so precisely, no one would notice the difference. You know his weakest spots.
“Now strike.”