He has that Determined Mateo look I remember from the tail end of our friendship, when his dad hit the road to “find himself” as a roadie for a Grateful Dead cover band. Like Mateo had finally realized he’d been letting a useless person dictate half his life, so he was going to have to step up and…oh. Oh, okay. I’ve become the useless person that Mateo has to compensate for, and I both recognize and accept that in an instant. I’m relieved, actually. All I want is to follow someone else’s lead for a while.
