At one point in the newly released A&E documentary series "The Clinton Affair," Monica Lewinsky says she now realizes part of her attraction to President Bill Clinton was that "someone who other people desired, desired me."
That's an insight that one gains with time, with the grace of years. She was 22 years old when she fell hard for the most powerful man in the world; analyzing the situation, assessing the risks, dangers, deceptions were not yet in her repertoire. She may have been of legal age, as both Bill and Hillary Clinton have repeatedly pointed out, but a 22-year-old is still locked in the fantasies and flights of imagination that define the very young.