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“My dream meet-cute is to fall in love via a long and thoughtful email reply to my newsletter.”

The world stops being a backdrop and starts being a conversation.

I was meant to wander. To dissolve. To hide. To build an inner life that sustains me when nothing else does. I was meant to arrive when the room had emptied and the music had stopped and the real ones remained.

If that sounds awkward – and inefficient – it was all part of the plan: they were discovering what could work, even in such adverse conditions, and cutting no corners.

and I didn’t get very long into my interview preparations to realize that I wasn’t only writing about a personal hero

“There are choices you make,” she said, “but the contradictions don’t go away. You just live with them.”