Yet yet more about Ayn Rand.

From Anne C. Heller's "Ayn Rand and the World She Made", p. 400 and 403 -- from her (Jewish) former secretary) --

After the Blumenthals' [=Brandens] departure, Weiss decided that Rand was not, after all, unconscious of the turbulence and pain she had caused in the lives of people who had cared for her, including [Ayn's husband] Frank. "She just robbed him of everything," the secretary said. "I [came to] look on her as a killer of people."

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Perhaps it's not surprising that he drank heavily whenever he could. He apparently ordered beer or hard liquor from neighborhood stores and took delivery in his studio, where he still spent many afternoons, or when [Ayn] was out of the apartment. "If Ayn happened to open the door, she'd send it back," said a regular visitor during those years. "Once he asked her about it. 'Are you trying to take this away from me, too?'"

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