The audience keeps singing, keeps making my case, and I just keep strumming until I get close enough to see her eyes. And then I start singing the chorus. Right to her. And she smiles at me, and it’s like we’re the only two people out here, the only ones who know what’s happening. Which is that this song we’re all singing together is being rewritten. It’s no longer an angry plea shouted to the void. Right here, on this stage, in front of eighty thousand people, it’s becoming something else. This is our new vow.

Forgivenesss: It's a miracle drug. It's God's miracle drug.

You can have your wishes, your plans, but at the end of the day, it's out of your control -Mia

Then I smell the sweat on him, a clean musky scent that I'd bottle and wear as perfume if I could.

Concert' doesn’t mean standing up like a target in front of thousands of strangers. It means coming together. It means harmony.

Sometimes we meet people and are so symbiotic with them, it's as if we are one person, with one mind, one destiny

I get it now. I have to make good on my promise. To let her go. To really let her go. To let us both go.