Then one night, something shifted. She didn’t get a job she wanted and she withdrew a frightening amount and went so dark I couldn’t see her, couldn’t reach her. To save her (see also: to get her to not abandon me), I took a break from my “I haven’t eaten or slept or stopped working in fifteen hours” day to make her a playlist to soothe her, wrote her a long email reminding her how incredible she was, started working on a short film so she could work on set with me, sent her voice memos letting her know I was there, and bought a shirt to give her when she came to visit. I poured it all out.
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