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Let’s sustain each other. Let’s enjoy each other. Let’s find forever.

Each and every eternity.

I’ll trade my heart for yours.

And we will be splendor, you and me.

She and I are not alone in the theater. I know hundreds of people around me hear her words, too, but somehow, it feels like she delivers the words to me. To only me. I wonder if everyone listening feels that way, too.

That’s the alchemy of this actress. She reaches you. With an audience this large, she makes it personal. In a story that is pretend, she makes it feel true.

And in a moment when I wasn’t looking, I’ve found exactly what I was looking for.