I’m hoping later this year to go to New York to see some theater. One show I really want to see is Hadestown, which won the Tony for Best Musical this year. It’s a re-telling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice.

This one song, a love song between the two leads, really jumped out at me when I heard it, mostly because of this one line: “All I’ve ever known is how to hold my own, but now I want to hold you, too.”

And I could be completely off-base, and overly optimistic, but I’ve always thought that if I ever do meet someone and fall in love, after a lifetime of loneliness and independence, that is exactly how I will feel.