Maybe it wasn’t quite the miraculous intervention she’d suggested to her mother, but for sure she owed her life—the one she had now, the tremendous life where she got cast in every show she auditioned for and landed the lead more often than not—to Rebecca and Robbie. They had taught her, simply, everything she knew about being a human in the wide world. For a while, even, she thought they’d taught her all there was to know, all that was knowable, for what else was there besides love and birth and endings that were also beginnings? It was a lot. It was everything.
