is see me as unusual

“I was there at the beginning. I witnessed the transformation of Melania
from gold plate into twenty-four-karat gold. I believed she had the heart
to match, that she was genuinely caring and loving and worth all of our
attention. Throughout our early friendship, she lived up to what I saw in
her. Watching her now, and seeing that only the gold shell remains, I have
to wonder if that’s all she ever was, and I was the sucker who bought the
fake watch on the street corner.”

Excerpt From
Melania and Me
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff