“Rochelle Rosen,” as Gia’s last lover is referred to in the book, died of AIDS in the mid-1990s. When I was finishing Thing of Beauty, Rochelle had already moved home and was experiencing some AIDS-related dementia. But she asked me to say in the acknowledgments that she had liver cancer, not AIDS, so I did. Now that she is gone, I think it is important to be open about how she really died.