She kept posting about the Marines on Facebook. ‘In the Marines you do this, you exercise, and you only eat healthy food.’_" Claudia became very critical of her parents. Claudia’s parents had moved to the Upper East Side after she started at Sarah Lawrence. Daniel too had initially found Larry’s philosophical musings incoherent and thought Claudia’s newfound trust in his amateur mental-health counseling seemed weird. Near the end of the school year, Daniel found himself unmoored. "She was so smart and creative," says one of her best friends from high school. "She was on ‘Larry behavior,’_" her mother says. "It was like something had snapped in her," says Juli Anna. Scholars now read accounts like Guibert’s as entirely delusional. Daniel now believes the confessions served to cement Larry’s psychological conditioning. Before, Claudia had been funny and self-aware; now she seemed artificially chipper. Claudia had grown up on the outskirts of Los Angeles.