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Even after a year of therapy and a lifetime of tears, there are plenty of colors Monica still can't see. Her affair with Clinton did not interfere with official business because they were "together mostly on the weekends." Even her lack of discretion is a relative thing. "For me, only telling 10 people was being pretty discreet." Monica knows her attitude infuriates people but says there isn't much she can do about that. As for the Creep, she says she's over him, doesn't want to speak with him, wouldn't believe...
TIME: You said your affair with Clinton was nobody's business, that it didn't affect the public. Do you really think that...
Lewinsky: Both. And I don't really mean to be ambivalent on this. I'm being honest. And then there are some days that I think I will never have an affair with a married man again, in large part because of how much pain it causes everybody involved. But a larger part of that is because of how damaging it is for me. And it is morally wrong. And I accept and I respect that it's more morally wrong to some people than it has been for me. But I will never do it again...
TIME: The fact that he was married and you'd had an affair with a married man before, did that make it easier? Or was that not even a factor...
...Monica Lewinsky had begun to feel fixed and formulated by the eyes of the public, the prosecutors and the media, last week was her chance to change the formula. It was an elaborate affair, spanning continents and media formats, involving a small army of press flacks and a red river of Club Monaco lipstick. Memorialized by a sympathetic biographer, humanized by Barbara Walters and glamorized by an upcoming European tour, Monica was reborn in warm pools of soft publicity...