I don’t know if any of you dear readers have had the pleasure of a childhood idol showing you some love, but “surreal” barely begins to describe it. It kind of feels like the firework of #BlackGirlMagic that explodes when Venus and Serena Williams greet each other every morning with a titty bump. Or like the pure joy that occurs when my friends and I bust out the choreography from *NSYNC’s “Bye Bye Bye” music video despite not having seen it in more than a decade. Or the hug from a parent that feels like home no matter where the two of you are when the hug is going down.

