![]() ![]() When, at the Santa Fe Opera, Ren realizes that saying yes to Cole would be saying yes to a bigger, more beautiful, more amazing life that it would be saying yes to his destiny that was me. ![]() I wasn’t conscious of that when I wrote it, but I see now that I was thinking about being taken under wing by influential Minneapolis theatre folk and being handed the keys–literally and figuratively–to the life I dreamed about living. When Ren says he wasn’t ready to get everything he always wanted at 17, that was me. There’s so much of me in Forever Man it’s a miracle the story ever saw the light of day. I’m thinking of Ren tonight, of that moment in Forever Man when he realizes that despite the fact that he has a real chance to get the one magical thing he’s always wanted (Cole’s love), he’s finding it difficult to say goodbye to Paul. I’m having a hard time closing the book on my other life, the perfectly-good, top-of-my-game, bright-and-steady future of a life that has been at best, a compromise. ![]()
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