Kate is helping me corral the kids and calls them out in groups to get outfitted for costumes. I let her take over. “I have never seen you like this,” she says. “Like what?” As if I don’t know. “Giddy. Loose. Spacey.” “I am all of those things.” “So like, what’s the plan? He’s staying a couple of weeks and then leaving after the first performance?” “Well, that’s what he said before, but now I don’t know. We don’t talk about it, but he kind of talks like he’s staying. Like there’s more than this.” Her look of concern is hard to ignore. “I’m totally delusional, aren’t I?” “No, my friend, you are
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