No Room at the Inn

Quilts Etc. chose today’s block to honor talk show host, producer and philanthrophist Oprah Winfrey. Oprah had a love affair nearly forty years ago with a married man who refused to leave his wife. “I’d had a relationship with that man for four years. I wasn’t living with him – I’d never lived with anyone – and I thought I was worthless without him. The more he rejected me the more I wanted him. I felt depleted, powerless. At the end I was down on the floor on my knees groveling and pleading with him.” She became so depressed that on September 8, 1981 she wrote a suicide note to best friend Gayle King asking Gayle to water her plants when she was gone. “That suicide note has been much overplayed,” Oprah said during a magazine interview. “I couldn't kill myself. I would be afraid the minute I did it that something really good would happen and I’d miss it.”