We got back in our seats just in time for Beyoncé. Selena and I were now bone-sober nervous while she did the Interview onstage. But we saw the same transformation in her that Mathew and I had witnessed seeing her onstage the last time. She was poised, yet wholly herself. Then she had to do her Walk, which all those other girls had spent those years practicing. She did it so naturally, then hit that required little pivot-turn and looked back. She threw the judges a kiss. I saw the effect, a wave going over the crowd and the judges melting. No one had ever told her to do that. It was just the
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