When Rayya stood in front of the judge, she asked him if she could speak, and he allowed it. She probably looked like every other junkie the judge had ever seen - and in some ways, she was like every other junkie the judge had ever seen. She was the perfect picture of a lost cause. She was a full-out drug addict at the time, and living on the streets. “There isn’t really an identifier for it.” “I know it sounds like a love story and it totally is,” says Elias.I was talking to my friend Rayya Elias the other day (author of the addiction/recovery memoir "Harley Loco", which I've spoken about many times on this page.) She was telling me about getting arrested for possession of heroin one day (as she had many times before) and ending up before a judge known for his harsh sentences. “It’s not your sister, it’s not your lover, it’s not your BFF,” says Gilbert. (They met when Gilbert was sent to Elias for a “hair intervention”.) Theirs is a kind of intimacy only found in female friendships and, even then, not always. Yet here they are, 14 years into what has become a very deep friendship clasping hands, finishing each other’s sentences, Elias absentmindedly fixing Gilbert’s hair. Gilbert and Elias have been friends for more than 15 years, and last year a Sunday Morning Herald profile attempted to describe their bond: On paper, everything about their pact rails against a natural sense of order.
I am exactly where I need to be - the only place I can be.” She goes on, “I’m walking through this cancer journey with her, not only as her friend, but as her partner. She also informs her readers that the reason she’s going public with her and Elias’s relationship now is because Elias has been diagnosed with pancreatic and liver cancer, which is incurable. And in this post, she acknowledges that her feelings for Elias were what dissolved her union with Nunes: “For those of you who are doing the math here, and who are wondering if this situation is why my marriage came to an end this spring, the simple answer is yes” - there follows a very long parenthetical about feelings, complete with a David Foster Wallace quote. Gilbert announced the end of her marriage to businessman José Nunes - who appeared in the “love” part of her memoir - in July. “And I have no more time for denying that truth.” “I do not merely love Rayya I am in love with Rayya,” she wrote. In a lengthy Facebook post titled “ME & RAYYA” and beginning with “Dear Ones,” the Eat, Pray, Love author revealed that she’s dating her best friend, Syrian writer Rayya Elias. On Wednesday, Elizabeth Gilbert announced some personal news.
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