Elizabeth Gilbert on the Death of Her True Love, Her "Alpha Wolf" Girlfriend

Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat Pray Love, tells the story of the death of the love of her life, Rayya Elias, who "didn't want gentle." She didn't want tender. She didn't want sunshine and lovely candles. She didn't want hospice and got kicked out. She wanted to live on Oreos and cigarettes. The story of the three women who loved Elias trying to keep up with her, "the Charlie's Angels way of being taken care of," and her insistence on dying as she had lived is beautiful. Here they are together.