Choke
'There is no safe investment; to love at all is to be vulnerable.' CS Lewis.
Dear Diary,
I thought I was ready. I had Jewel's 'Break Me' playing on repeat in the car all week:
'I will meet you in some place, where the light lends itself to soft repose, I will let you undress me…I am lost to you now and there's no amount of reason that could save me. So break me, take me…'
But sometimes things just don't pan out the way you plan (as Rachel and Bieste discovered.)
Rachel 'choked' at her NYADA audition. Carman Tipodot requested that there be no audience, so I couldn't go but Will told me she forgot the lyrics to 'Don't Rain On My Parade.' Unheard of!
Shannon choked over telling us the truth about her black eye. It wasn't a punching bag that hit her, it was Cooter. Sue, Will, Roz (or Black Sue as Original Sue likes to call her) were stunned by the humiliating and soul-destroying revelation. Sue told Will, she's not so sure, Shannon has left him either.
And I choked last night.