'Our friendship was intimate on all levels': Robyn Crawford on her love for Whitney Houston

The star’s former assistant opens up about a 20-year relationship that weathered addiction, fame and secrecyThe story told by Robyn Crawford in the pages of A Song For You, an account of her decades-long relationship with Whitney Houston is tender, moving and painful to read, the history of a friendship that is also a love story. More acutely, it is the story of two women who, for the entirety of Houston’s life, concealed the sexual origins of that relationship, amid intense and ofte