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"FacebookPinterestRielle.png\n\n What's the opposite of a train wreck? Something just as fascinating but not quite as deadly; just as gleefully misguided but not as noisy. Whatever that is, that's Rielle Hunter's exclusive interview with GQ. Her protestations that she and Edwards were\u2014and are\u2014in love and her vision of a world in which their affair has made Edwards a better man make for captivating reading though, as with train wrecks, the situation she describes is familiar to anyone who's seen it before.\n\nIt was love at first sight. She used to be judgmental about infidelities but this is different. The marriage was in trouble before she came along. He really loves her. He didn't mean the other stuff he said. He's not what you think. She's not really a mistress. In her original phrasing: She \"plays the mistress role,\" and, to be fair, she does come across as wanting a round of applause. Maybe she deserves one, though not for \"help[ing] him become more integrated so that people could see that he had it going on.\" (She may have overshot the mark on the latter.)\n\nComedians will certainly owe her something; her swooning declaration to the power of \"the force field of our love\" is bound to be the \"Appalachian Trail\" of 2010. And other mistresses around the world may look to her for perverse proof that affairs can have another kind of fairy tale ending besides a second\u2014and, obviously, better\u2014marriage. It's tempting to say the country is in her debt, but one of the many tragedies of Hunter's story is that she can't even be properly said to have ruined Edwards' shot at the Presidency. Edwards, as well as voters, did that all by themselves.\n\nLater: Quotes from the thing we just did!"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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