19“HOW’S IT GOING, TONY?”
“Good.”
It was Tuesday, 4 April 1972. Tony Pisano was at the start of his third outpatient therapy session at Rock Ridge Veterans Medical Center. Why he had come again, this third time, he wasn’t certain. He was eager, hopeful. Things had changed drastically from the moment he’d moved into High Meadow. He and Linda were together again, yet not together.
Tony’s new therapist, John H. Binford, Ph.D., had been brought in to implement Daniel Holbrook’s experimental program—both as researcher and as therapist. Binford was six years older than Tony, the same age as Tony’s brother, John Jr. That was part of the lure, the promise as Tony saw it, the reason Binford had gained a hold over him, held him through biweekly sessions that would continue for thirteen months. Du
