How apposite that Donna should meet Ted on the stairs, a place of transition! Ted is neither ‘on ground level’ nor ‘in the stratosphere’, he is ‘on the stairs’. In this moment he represents a third way. A life that can balance career and family. A synthesis. Donna reiterates both her love and her willingness to be Cleveland-based. He asks her how on earth could any woman be happy in Cleveland? ‘Because you’re in Cleveland,’ she fires back, like the loveliest machine gun in the world. Is there anything more romantic than someone’s willingness to remain in a place that is demonstrably
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