on Scandal, I started to drop the mask not only because the hours were long, over an extended period of time, but also because we knew we were part of something historic. We were committed to the show and to one another, and that rapid-fire intimacy didn’t disappear—it lasted for seven years. Through the course of it I learned how to maintain and nurture authentic closeness and vulnerability over the long haul, through weddings and divorces and illness and births and good times and bad times and everything in between. I had come to understand, accept, and even embrace the limitations of
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